Steve Purcell

When packages become unmaintained, I ask potential new maintainers to first contact the author and offer to take over (as per this issue). If the original maintainer is unresponsive for...

FWIW, I think progressive/modernisation changes like this PR should be merged, even if it changes the behaviour for some users. Otherwise, what's the point of maintaining this here? To be...

Every version of Emacs that zig-mode supports has a compatible modern `flymake` included, so here I wouldn't recommend splitting it into a separate package: it's fairly common and reasonable for...

P.S. Perhaps `:ensure-noerror` would be a better name...

> What could cause a package to be uninstallable? Would it be a platform specific or repository specific issue or something specific to a package not working properly? If I...

Yes, that might also make sense.

The choice of default behaviour hinges on the question of whether a `use-package` user should be able to (or should have to) specify ahead of time whether failing to install...

> A nice big breakage is just what you need That's why I suggested something based on `warn` as the default: it pops up a window that's hard to ignore,...

Somewhat relatedly: I might suggest adding Emacs HEAD to the matrix too, but allowing failures for that version. Then you kinda get a heads-up about potential future issues. I noticed...

Yay! Nice.