From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing patches without getting legal papers. Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:48:24 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021030184557.5BDB.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <20021029083512.A082.LEKTU@terra.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036003593 10777 80.91.224.249 (30 Oct 2002 18:46:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186xrJ-0002nA-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:46:29 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186xwX-00023A-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:51:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186xfM-0002oe-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:34:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186wxD-000106-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:48:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186wxA-0000zq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.141] (helo=mail.peoplecall.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186wxA-0000yK-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:48:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.143] (jbarranquero.ofi.peoplecall.com [62.22.27.143]) by mail.peoplecall.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9UHmO019414; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:48:24 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.05.06 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8969 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8969 On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:16:50 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > A tiny change is one so small we don't need legal papers for it. > See maintain.texi for the criterion for that. I'll look into it. > However, it's the total size of that person's changes that determines > whether we need papers. So each time you install such a change, > always search for the person's name to see if there are other changes > (in C or in Lisp) by the same person. If there are other changes, > please look at the total size of the new change and the old ones. If > the total is big enough to need papers, then don't install the new > change. OK. Still, most changes not-by-me that I've installed were sent by you. I assumed you knew if they had signed papers or not... /L/e/k/t/u