From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pull requests Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:46:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mu87ji39.fsf@dick> <87v9mvp2ms.fsf@blind.guru> <87d093f6lj.fsf@dick> <87369yc79r.fsf@dick> <83mu828c7d.fsf@gnu.org> <7b0e82fd-8928-26d2-4bed-331593685f36@gmail.com> <83h7ya7wne.fsf@gnu.org> <8b7d5a28-8193-cd12-bb47-b70c7eee6db5@gmail.com> <83eetd962o.fsf@gnu.org> <281f88c3-ea09-3486-5532-5084881bf38b@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="76289"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 28 03:47:58 2020 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 1jI1Vu-000JkB-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 03:47:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49492 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jI1Vt-0007W9-Gv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53046) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jI1Uf-0006E1-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jI1Ud-0000sV-V2; Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:46:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jI1Uc-0004vN-OU; Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:46:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <281f88c3-ea09-3486-5532-5084881bf38b@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:41:00 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:245854 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > That section is literally "contributions under consideration", That is a statement of intentions, not facts. Emacs developers would know those intentions, but other Emacs users might have no idea about them. why would > anyone think it's the project code already? Why wouldn't anyone thing so? Are you proposing to display a message of explanation whenever someone tries to view the code in a pull request? Suppose A sends B a URL pointing to a branch with non-installed patches. If A doesn't warn B; if A is too terse and does not make the point clear, B will not know it is non-installed. B will only see that it is in the standard GNU Emacs repo. This is asking for big trouble. Versions of Emacs that by policy we should not be distributing could start being distributed in that way, and no responsible person would ever be asked whether to do this. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)