From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing patches without getting legal papers. Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:16:50 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5xfzuqqj3f.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <20021029083512.A082.LEKTU@terra.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036002197 4587 80.91.224.249 (30 Oct 2002 18:23:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186xT2-00014J-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:21:24 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186xYE-0001Uo-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:26:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186xRK-0005Lk-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:19:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186wSb-0006TD-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:16:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186wSZ-0006SW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:16:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186wSY-0006SB-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:16:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 186wSY-0002pQ-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:16:50 -0500 Original-To: lektu@terra.es In-reply-to: <20021029083512.A082.LEKTU@terra.es> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:37:22 +0100) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8958 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8958 The purpose of "(tiny change)" is to help us keep track of the changes for which we did not need legal papers. Just a question: how many lines of change are considered "tiny"? A tiny change is one so small we don't need legal papers for it. See maintain.texi for the criterion for that. ! 2002-10-16 Luc Teirlinck (tiny change) We have papers from Luc, so it is not useful to put "(tiny change)" on his changes. Big or small, they are all covered by papers. Please only use "(tiny change)" in the cases where we install a change from someone who did not give us legal papers. However, it's the total size of that person's changes that determines whether we need papers. So each time you install such a change, always search for the person's name to see if there are other changes (in C or in Lisp) by the same person. If there are other changes, please look at the total size of the new change and the old ones. If the total is big enough to need papers, then don't install the new change.