From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Alan Third Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 17:58:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20200513165839.GA50560@breton.holly.idiocy.org> References: <834kslao2y.fsf@gnu.org> <052569f9-0571-6471-7a27-f3d7b36497a0@gmail.com> <83sgg58ari.fsf@gnu.org> <837dxh847w.fsf@gnu.org> <834ksl833q.fsf@gnu.org> <20200512201727.GA50065@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <960f9bf2-7931-1984-cb2f-ae32fe338928@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="21209"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Eli Zaretskii , phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, ndame@protonmail.com To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 13 19:02:39 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jYumF-0005P5-2J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 19:02:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45538 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYumE-0000fc-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 13:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYulO-00006C-MU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2020 13:01:47 -0400 Original-Received: from idiocy.org ([217.169.17.33]:53874 helo=breton.holly.idiocy.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYulN-00006W-4B; Wed, 13 May 2020 13:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: by breton.holly.idiocy.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id B8E1E2022C4267; Wed, 13 May 2020 17:58:39 +0100 (BST) Mail-Followup-To: Alan Third , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment?= Pit-Claudel , Eli Zaretskii , casouri@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ndame@protonmail.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <960f9bf2-7931-1984-cb2f-ae32fe338928@gmail.com> Received-SPF: none client-ip=217.169.17.33; envelope-from=alan@breton.holly.idiocy.org; helo=breton.holly.idiocy.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/13 12:58:41 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Mac OS X [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250152 Archived-At: On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:03:06PM -0400, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote: > > But the complexity of PGP is a valid concern. I operated under the > assumption that most new contributors sign copyright papers with > PGP, and so that PGP was a reasonable baseline. I didn’t sign mine with PGP, as far as I can remember, so my assumption was that most people don’t. Is it a new requirement? If people are happy to sign commits with PGP then I don’t have a problem with that, I just really don’t want to be left having to try to talk someone through the process of setting it up. > Concretely, how do you handle these cases? What am I supposed to do, > when I get a patch, to check if the patch author has an assignment > on file? Surely I can't bother Eli every time. Is it enough to take > the author's word for it that they have an assignment? Alan, do you > have advice on handling these situations? I’m afraid not. Usually I check the Emacs repo to see if they’re already in it, if not then I ask if they’ve signed the papers, and usually Eli pops up with the answer before they reply. > As an alternative, the attached python script implements a REST API > to do the checking. I don't have access to fencepost, so I don't > know what format the file tracking assignments is — I made a guess > about that part. I think an API makes a lot of sense. -- Alan Third