From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ricardo Wurmus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 08:25:09 +0200 Message-ID: <877fn05xa2.fsf@elephly.net> References: <5610207A.2000300@harpegolden.net> <83fv1r3gzp.fsf@gnu.org> <83bncf3f9k.fsf@gnu.org> <5610E0BC.8090902@online.de> <83si5r106e.fsf@gnu.org> <831td9z18h.fsf@gnu.org> <5612E996.7090700@yandex.ru> <56136698.6000404@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444112757 18683 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2015 06:25:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 06:25:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 06 08:25:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjLh3-00078t-3B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 08:25:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49188 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjLh1-0008VW-S4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:25:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56086) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjLgg-0008Uz-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjLgb-0002zp-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:25547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjLgb-0002zD-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (xd9ba6329.dyn.telefonica.de [217.186.99.41]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 14441127137771005.7593489949361; Mon, 5 Oct 2015 23:25:13 -0700 (PDT) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 24.5.1 In-reply-to: <56136698.6000404@online.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 74.201.84.163 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190998 Archived-At: Andreas Röhler writes: > Am 05.10.2015 um 23:20 schrieb Dmitry Gutov: >> [ ... ] >> We really don't have enough volunteers. > > [ ... ] > > Might the FSF copyright assigment policy being a major cause here? For me the copyright assigment policy hasn’t been an obstacle to contribution in another GNU project. What keeps me from contributing to Emacs is just this peculiar mix of not knowing enough details and time spent on other projects. I found a list of simple tasks that new contributors could tackle in another project (the Hurd) very encouraging, leaving only time management as a reason not to contribute. Copyright assignment is a one-time thing and it doesn’t take much time. ~~ Ricardo