From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 20:28:46 +0100 Message-ID: <87y248qya9.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <83zgoopkwb.fsf@gnu.org> <83y248pkhk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32831"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:v7/4X9KwFnBITJoOgHswulIDhec= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 25 20:30:46 2021 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 1n1Ckf-0008Kd-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 20:30:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46126 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1Ckd-0006nk-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 14:30:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36262) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1Cj0-00066s-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 14:29:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:52456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1Civ-0005Xd-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 14:28:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n1Cit-0005zR-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Dec 2021 20:28:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:283243 Archived-At: xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." writes: > If I am wrong, they > would need to have a very good reason for not contributing it directly as > an improvement to Emacs.  My argument is that that reason couldn't have > been "hardness of changing Emacs." As of today, straight.el project page says it has 54 contributors. The roadblock with projects with so many contributors usually is collecting the required copyright assignments. Other major packages suffer from this, despite the willingness of their authors/maintainers to put them under the GNU umbrella.