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: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:08:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <834kslao2y.fsf@gnu.org> <052569f9-0571-6471-7a27-f3d7b36497a0@gmail.com> <83sgg58ari.fsf@gnu.org> <837dxh847w.fsf@gnu.org> <834ksl833q.fsf@gnu.org> <20200512201727.GA50065@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <960f9bf2-7931-1984-cb2f-ae32fe338928@gmail.com> <20200513165839.GA50560@breton.holly.idiocy.org> 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="57818"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, ndame@protonmail.com To: Alan Third Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 14 07:10:29 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 1jZ68a-000Ev6-Op for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 07:10:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60668 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ68Z-0007gy-OJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ66l-0004DS-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ66k-0008Up-Of; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:08:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ66j-00069E-EL; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:08:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200513165839.GA50560@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (message from Alan Third on Wed, 13 May 2020 17:58:39 +0100) 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:250196 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. ]]] > I’m afraid not. Usually I check the Emacs repo to see if they’re > already in it, In concrete terms, what does "already in it" mean? We can install small changes without papers, so the fact that a person's name is on a change is not proof that we got an assignment from per. -- 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)