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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298352 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > FWIW, coreutils don't have people ask on the mailing list about this, > > they just have this note in their HACKING file: > > > The forms to choose from are in gnulib's doc/Copyright/ directory. > > If you want to assign a single change, you should use the file, > > doc/Copyright/request-assign.changes: > > That looks like the old way we used to do things, before we > developed the simpler way we have used for a decade or two. > So you're proposing two changes at once: > > 1. To publish in the Emacs distro a statement of what contributors > should do, and > > 2. To recommend the old way instead of the current way. > > I think #1 is fine, but we should not do #2. Could you please explain what "the old way" and "the current way" is in the above?