From: Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:50:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEtmmex6WFtE7mtS=s3oU-m5qHW9fqK5O+0HRh37M81U2x1YAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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> If a package needs assignment then the maintainer cannot accept code
until the copyright is assigned which is an administrative hoop which nor
the maintainer, nor the submitter may want to deal with
Some years ago I wrote a little patch (~30 LOC, IIRC) for the yasnippet and
got it rejected because it was a few lines longer than the limit for a
patch without an assigned copyright.
I tried to game the systems, I split the patch and I asked a buddy of mine
to submit the first half under his name to stay under the line-limit and
avoid the assignment procedure. That didn't work out. I didn't feel like I
should really invest that much energy into to the cover-up of my little
work and the yasnippet maintainer isn't that naive.
So I capitulated and proceeded with the FSF copyright assignment paperwork.
That went rather quickly, maybe just 2 or 3 days... and after receiving it
I felt pretty proud of myself being officially(!) an "open source dev"
dude. Except that I haven't resubmit the patch nor did contribute in any
other way to the emacs core parts or packages. My attention span was over.
Sorry about that.
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2020-04-23 17:42 Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? ndame
2020-04-24 0:50 ` Rostislav Svoboda [this message]
2020-04-24 2:23 ` Noam Postavsky
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2020-04-23 17:47 ndame
2020-04-23 18:50 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-23 18:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-23 18:59 ` ndame
2020-04-23 19:02 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-23 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-23 20:19 ` ndame
2020-04-23 21:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-23 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-23 23:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-23 23:57 ` Tim Cross
2020-04-24 3:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-24 5:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-24 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 3:35 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-24 17:47 ` Phillip Lord
2020-04-25 2:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-26 21:11 ` Phillip Lord
2020-04-26 21:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-25 3:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-25 4:22 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-04-25 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 17:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-25 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 20:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-26 21:34 ` Phillip Lord
2020-04-26 22:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-05 20:27 ` Phillip Lord
2020-05-07 2:43 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-07 3:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-07 7:13 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-07 9:40 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-07 12:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-07 15:18 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-07 7:17 ` 조성빈
2020-05-07 7:23 ` tomas
2020-05-07 14:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-08 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-08 3:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 18:01 ` Phillip Lord
2020-05-08 18:47 ` João Távora
2020-05-08 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-09 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-09 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-09 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-10 2:30 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-09 13:33 ` Andreas Röhler
2020-05-11 18:51 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-11 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 19:13 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-11 19:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-11 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-11 19:36 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-12 2:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 2:46 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-12 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 16:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-12 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 17:26 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-12 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-12 19:48 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-12 20:17 ` Alan Third
2020-05-13 3:03 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-13 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 16:58 ` Alan Third
2020-05-13 17:36 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-14 10:06 ` Robert Pluim
2020-05-14 5:08 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-14 5:08 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-14 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-14 19:27 ` Alan Third
2020-05-13 4:01 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-12 20:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-13 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-13 4:22 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-13 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 15:16 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-13 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 16:55 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-13 17:01 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-05-14 5:09 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-14 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-15 3:23 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-13 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-13 14:48 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-12 3:17 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25 3:55 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-04-26 3:25 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25 7:56 ` Tim Cross
2020-04-25 8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 6:06 ` Tim Cross
2020-04-27 2:18 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-27 4:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-28 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-23 21:46 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-23 23:50 ` Tim Cross
2020-04-24 8:56 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-24 9:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-24 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 15:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-25 2:15 ` Tim Cross
2020-04-26 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-23 19:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-07 17:42 ` João Távora
2020-05-07 19:54 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-07 20:28 ` João Távora
2020-05-08 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 16:28 ` João Távora
2020-05-08 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 19:35 ` ndame
2020-04-23 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-24 4:28 ` ndame
2020-04-25 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-24 5:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-24 12:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-25 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25 14:27 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-26 4:11 ` Po Lu
2020-05-07 18:17 Luke Shumaker
2020-05-07 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-09 3:50 ` Richard Stallman
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