From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 22:27:19 +0300 Message-ID: <838shy9srs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83blmu9u57.fsf@gnu.org> <7c61a272-f4ba-fdfd-755b-1a720e8cc2df@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="84247"; 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, ndame@protonmail.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 21:29:58 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 1jYE7i-000LlH-Mg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 21:29:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47436 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYE7h-00061N-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 15:29:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52804) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYE5Z-00044s-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 15:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYE5V-0004I0-UG; Mon, 11 May 2020 15:27:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4588 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jYE5H-0002Lm-Ss; Mon, 11 May 2020 15:27:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <7c61a272-f4ba-fdfd-755b-1a720e8cc2df@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Mon, 11 May 2020 15:13:23 -0400) 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:249871 Archived-At: > Cc: rms@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, > casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > ndame@protonmail.com > From: Clément Pit-Claudel > Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 15:13:23 -0400 > > > I think you are missing the main point. The problem is not > > security, it is correct attribution. > > Sorry, it seems my email was unclear. The proposal doesn't have to do with security. I'm trying to find a robust way to figure out if someone has copyright papers. But that isn't the main problem. The main problem is how to identify the name of the person for whom you need to check the status of copyright assignment. We are talking about the situation where all you have is a commit made by someone in a Git repository other than that of Emacs. It has some name and some email. That's all you have. > That problem exists regardless of how we check whether someone has copyright papers, right? Yes, but if a human does the checking, that human can do stuff that programs cannot. > What I'm trying to find is a way to check whether I can accept a patch into an ELPA package without having to email an Emacs maintainer every time. Yes, I understand.