From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Winkler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: BBDB v3 approaching release Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:13:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87bo7wjt8x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20899.5836.285028.24953@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369671245 16543 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2013 16:14:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 16:14:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 27 18:14:03 2013 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 1Uh03V-0003KF-0R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 18:13:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54430 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uh03U-0004M5-EX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 12:13:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uh03K-0004Lo-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 12:13:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uh03G-0003tx-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 12:13:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35927) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uh03G-0003tt-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 12:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from p5dc58fbf.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([93.197.143.191]:48378 helo=regnitz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uh03G-0003BD-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 12:13:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 27 May 2013 11:13:54 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:159837 Archived-At: On Mon, May 27 2013, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> GNU ELPA is good for distribution. > > But it's only for code whose copyright was assigned to the FSF. > While BBDBv3 has a lot of new code by Roland, AFAICT it still shares > a non-trivial amount of code with the old codebase for which we don't > have copyright assignments. Identifying the old pieces of code in BBDB v3, which do require copyright assignments, is also on my to-do list. Maybe the amount of old code is really not significant anymore. I cannot tell myself and it is a somewhat tedious excercise to check this properly. (Help welcome!) Yet I think that in the meanwhile, it would be nice to have a proper release of BBDB v3. Roland