From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GitLab CI setup file in scratch/tzz/gitlab Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 21:53:09 -0400 Message-ID: <20170518215309.525f1ac1@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <87shkvnh2z.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83inlrngte.fsf@gnu.org> <864lxal9zf.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> <83efwend39.fsf@gnu.org> <7d76fa8b-af9e-0484-1ac7-af94ce01549a@yandex.ru> <837f25oq0d.fsf@gnu.org> <878tmkkpui.fsf@lifelogs.com> <41908131-e111-aa3d-b5af-b331c7618ed3@yandex.ru> <356742bb-967f-67c1-6a30-62e4d4e30102@yandex.ru> <87a86gnpiv.fsf@lifelogs.com> <20170517211213.19d9e65e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495158832 5850 195.159.176.226 (19 May 2017 01:53:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 01:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 19 03:53:47 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dBX6w-0001KC-8D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 May 2017 03:53:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56134 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBX6z-00054R-QS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 21:53:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34734) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBX6Q-00054I-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 21:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBX6N-0004wL-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 21:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:60524) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBX6N-0004vM-P5; Thu, 18 May 2017 21:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478957B0; Thu, 18 May 2017 21:53:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B502DE03F; Thu, 18 May 2017 21:53:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 166.84.7.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214970 Archived-At: On Thu, 18 May 2017 21:19:36 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote: > Thanks for the offer, but it would not be feasible for anyone to > help me deal with git while communicating by email. We would need > to be in the same room. Although I can't be in the same room as you, I'm sure getting someone else to you in Cambridge to tutor you through it would be straightforward. > As for magit, we don't have legal papers to include it in Emacs, > so please don't encourage poeple to use it. I'm curious as to why. It is GPL, even GPLv3. Given that it is free software, is there a good reason why one should discourage use of it? > To keep Emacs honest, we must promote the tools we can include in > Emacs. If those seem insufficient, then we should improve them. > Perhaps that includes replacing magit (if we can't get papers for > magit). Has it been tried? Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com