From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Martin Pool <mbp@canonical.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:39:59 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912181539.nBIFdxDB017165@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01316480912102002r19efb16cy5354b001441d2ae1@mail.gmail.com> (Martin Pool's message of "Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:02:51 +1100")
Martin Pool <mbp@canonical.com> writes:
> 2009/12/11 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>:
> > This discussion started in part because of the perceived difficulty of
> > getting a patch integrated to implement "bzr unshelve --keep"
> > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/492091)
>
> I would be the first to agree that we have made it too hard to get
> changes in in the past, and that while we are doing better now we can
> still do more. However, I can't find any history with this particular
> request, just a recently-filed bug?
I don't think that's the whole history here.
> > bzr shelves are not very usable without this option, you can't go back
> > and forth between shelved versions.
> > The patch would change bzrlib/shelf_ui.py:Unshelver.from_args to set
> > delete_shelf to False when "--keep" is passed. So about 3 lines total.
> >
> > Would such a patch need copyright assignment?
> > Even if it does, given the above description, a bzr developer can
> > reproduce the change needed in a few seconds...
> > Can you please help get this solved?
>
> Yes, it would need copyright assignment. We do this on every patch
> because our legal opinion said that there is no globally-recognized
> concept of "too small to copyright", and because we want to have clear
> copyright. Many developers, both at Canonical and otherwise, have
> given feedback that they think the FSF approach of saying "about a
> paragraph" (or whatever it precisely is) is a reasonable commonsense
> tradeoff..
FYI: the FSF policy is to require a copyright assignment from someone
that submits a number of small patches, so it's not possible to work
around the copyright requirement by splitting a larger change into many
smaller ones.
It looks like bzr unshelve --keep will make it into the next version,
thanks for taking care of it!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-01 19:47 support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-01 20:48 ` Xavier Maillard
2009-12-02 5:43 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-02 6:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-01 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-01 22:50 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-01 23:18 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-02 3:00 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-02 3:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-02 3:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-02 4:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-02 5:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-02 6:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-02 6:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 7:48 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-03 8:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 8:32 ` Bojan Nikolic
2009-12-03 9:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-03 17:05 ` Splitting changes (was: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir) Stefan Monnier
2009-12-03 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-03 19:26 ` Splitting changes Stefan Monnier
2009-12-03 19:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 20:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-03 17:24 ` support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 18:18 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 18:48 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-03 19:00 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 19:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-03 21:30 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-03 22:57 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 0:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-04 1:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 2:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-04 6:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-04 21:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 21:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-12-04 22:57 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 23:52 ` Glenn Morris
2009-12-05 3:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-05 6:49 ` Jan Djärv
2009-12-05 7:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-12-05 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-05 12:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-12-05 19:59 ` Glenn Morris
2009-12-06 19:27 ` Richard Stallman
2009-12-06 20:11 ` GNU bzr [was Re: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir] Glenn Morris
2009-12-09 13:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-12-09 16:50 ` GNU bzr Karl Fogel
2009-12-15 23:11 ` Karl Fogel
2009-12-10 0:16 ` support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir Martin Pool
2009-12-10 3:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-10 4:19 ` Martin Pool
2009-12-10 14:02 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-11 4:02 ` Martin Pool
2009-12-18 15:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2009-12-21 1:49 ` Martin Pool
2009-12-11 5:53 ` Martin Pool
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