Emacs has a new maintainer. Thanks to John Wiegley for taking on a hard, and often thankless, job.
Wiegley has been very active in Emacs development—including authoring the wonderful use-package and eshell packages—and has lots of good ideas. If you’re not familiar with his work, take a look at his chat with Sacha about Emacs or his chat with Sacha on Elisp development. There’s also a video with Sacha about organizing your Emacs configuration with use-package that I didn’t get a chance to write about.
I was excited when Wiegley expressed interest in the job and hoped he would be chosen. For his part, Wiegley is promising to make Emacs development a better place:
To all wishing to improve #emacs: Join me on the emacs-devel ML. We will make it a fun place again. Calling back all those who left!
— John Wiegley (@jwiegley) November 4, 2015