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: Copyright assignment Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 08:45:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83bkasotf6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lepa3pbi.fsf@disroot.org> <837d0twgx1.fsf@gnu.org> <9aad262e-2b1c-05c0-b78a-99696b931b41@gutov.dev> <83il50pm01.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7079"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, akib@disroot.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 15 07:46:35 2023 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 1rE1xy-0001bf-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 07:46:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rE1xE-0008Vd-DP; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 01:45:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rE1xA-0008VF-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 01:45:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rE1x7-0001x7-JQ; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 01:45:43 -0500 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=cddA+LN0pqoaNrX0BpiPJn1GcOaJYmAK9DojrfjieUQ=; b=sIbUy4VNsoHv q7TgIvExfzsXCaIJiP3WSv6yxflb4xX6OJ4T5u9WkJjVHnFkFuc2wpzdWUN1BXcEIuD3WhasJYh+R s9wgM0GfwVBaOUwHSm1WE3ihVwnCYu4iMHcEccpvL0OLgpEdNIM+HPdKpuM2xt+JlVPW3n5aSyWNw VCt6J0d+7Vn98Cp4TGiBjFnMhVmOKm59/HTb9cXBuI0jWPx0gsl31YO06J59pcuV5s/TxcR/JVNU9 zFF6NL9C90eqr+TEzGY+GCucsNoAmrKnjvmTGz8648Dk7Ma9v0K0X0mmlNncORcgl+xsG0MMQoZJk V/7NwPsXrBhotfd1lPDAgw==; In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:41:38 +0200) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:313844 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:41:38 +0200 > Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, akib@disroot.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > > On 14/12/2023 22:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Somebody else (e.g. a maintainer on some package on ELPA) would be able > >> to skip a step or two and send would-be contributors a link to the > >> repository. > > And they are unable to do that today? why not? > > I've done this many times, but it never really felt like the "right > thing to do" since it's not the documented course of action, more like a > quick hack that happens to work by imitation. I'm not sure I understand. What we have now _is_ documented: see the parts of Stefan's patch that modify the relevant areas of our documentation. So what is not documented now, and how the proposed changes will change that? > Until our policy changes and we start asking for more (or different) > info, while Org's version of that file in the repository gets outdated. Sorry, I didn't understand this part and its relevance.