From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Magit Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:48:39 +0300 Message-ID: <835yi2kpns.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zgflc6m9.fsf@codeisgreat.org> <877d2ocou6.fsf@codeisgreat.org> <8735d93r9n.fsf@disroot.org> <87zgfedwfc.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14922"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, akib@disroot.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 05 14:24:07 2022 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 1oVB95-0003e3-0g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:24:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47520 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVB8z-0007r2-Uv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 08:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVAb8-00043D-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVAb7-0004Yv-Ix; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:49:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=cRSR0DenYV+5iN2efSQF2KDGbMzsuprtwZLFooJG2i8=; b=oP9X4f0hArE+ oVRbtLZbUWZ206e1WLDDzPpVs1paYkwiDAWvWTWp5MBW24rDNKu7V7JIFg7LkYBNol0xZv3nXBatH XBTPBXd8f7YcuPjkU7wNclM/I66VB153Z6hl4hO2MfByzTX5Mzce4cDyIz5EDO3mcE5YOt1S2NbPs LaPkgw0uDCawzd+fjVCAPTlyl5xNzO5r7lzxV5vcTJY9NUCJ7sxcDLfq7/eOk5dHVxj84pf9UaYVw 6gMd76sChmdAnDM9nhuYcCBC9omH4VK+Slp/EKhek/HKdfwv7TTVpBJEqrj2bQvgBQTWDHWQJIj76 5VxFTQQ32NvVMKBnXaWcOw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3609 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVAb6-0008Vl-Kc; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:49:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zgfedwfc.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:04:23 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:294741 Archived-At: > From: Philip Kaludercic > Cc: Akib Azmain Turja , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:04:23 +0000 > > Richard Stallman writes: > > > > I don't think that will ever happen. Magit has many contributors, and > > > many of them hasn't completed the paperwork. > > > > Talking with them about this is not impossible. It just takes work. > > Magit itself has 315 contributors of which approximately 70-90 have > significant contributions by my estimate. There are certainly a few > that have already signed the CA, but there are plenty that have done so > either a long while ago and would not be difficult to contact. And > with this many people there are always plenty who are disinterested or > actively hostile towards assigning their copyright, which is always an > unpleasant situation. > > It might not be "impossible" in the literal sense of the word, but that > doesn't make it much easier either. AFAIK, the job of getting this done, however formidable, was already under way. Jonas described its progress on several occasions.