Re: Android port of Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 24/06/2023 10:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > It seems more like you are concerned about having an extra thing on your
> > plate, which is totally reasonable.
> Extra thing on our plate, yes.  We had similar discussions about
> smaller additions, like the tree-sitter grammars, for example.
> Basically, anything that is a significant additional scope for Emacs
> maintenance should IMO be scrutinized very thoroughly, precisely
> because we have very limited resources.  And this case is no
> different.

If I was making this choice, perhaps I'd make an emphasis on the port's 
usefulness. When accepting a significant body of code, whether it has 
one maintainer or several, we should generally be able to understand who 
are the users.

Have the most recent version published on f-droid, then wait a few weeks 
and maybe have a poll somewhere on the mailing lists and/or reddit.

Does f-droid have some private download stats? I couldn't find any, but 
they could be useful. What numbers to expect or require, though, I can't 
say.

The flip side, of course, is that for an arbitrary package written in 
Lisp but not widely useful, we can still halfway-accept it by putting on 
[NonGNU] ELPA. No such option here.