Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads.

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:57:32 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:
> 
> > First, if this is Alex's code, please show his full name and email
> > address, as they will have to be mentioned in the commit message, and
> > we need to know the status of his legal paperwork, or the lack
> > thereof.
> 
> First, Alex (Cc’d) asked me explicitly to do it on his behalf because he
> didn’t want to have to deal with this (IMO unfriendly) feedback
> personally.  I see we’re failing here.

There's some unfortunate mis-communication here, because my feedback
wasn't meant to be unfriendly in any way.  Apologies if my wording
failed me.  English is not the first language for either of us.

> Second, I would argue that this is not legally significant.

I didn't say it was.  But we mark small enough contributions we accept
from people without legal paperwork specially in the commit log
message, so we need to know the status just to decide what to put
there.

As it turns out, Alex already has an assignment on file for
contributing to Emacs.  But I couldn't verify that without knowing his
full name or email address.

> > Second, I don't see how doing this in only loaddefs.el will help make
> > an Emacs build "reproducible":
> 
> This is obviously the first patch of a series.  It does not make Emacs
> itself bit-reproducible, but it makes Emacs packages bit-reproducible.
> 
> See <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00728.html>
> for more info.

I'd prefer to have the whole series, to see where this is going, and
then commit them in one go.  But that's me.  John?