[stupidthrottle]

> He seems out of touch even with modern emacs packages. He doesn't use any of them

And he believes the right thing for the core Emacs-developers to do is to spend their time trying get everyone in MELPA (a modern package repo, with a modern GUI, based on modern tools and workflows) to instead move their packages to ELPA, with all the change in tools, modernism’s and workflows that entails.

He seriously believes this is important because MELPA isn’t GNU, and that’s all he cares about. It’s not enough to be open-source and free. You must be GNU, or it doesn’t matter.

He may add things of value still, but I refuse to believe it’s not overshadowed by all the backwardisms he constantly tries to impose on the core developers actually doing the dirty work.