From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What to do so Vimpulse (Vim emulation plugin) can get into Emacs? Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:11:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233595832 29432 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2009 17:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:30:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Vimpulse mailing list , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jason A. Spiro" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 02 18:31:42 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LU2dy-00029n-CC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:31:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36764 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2cf-0000EQ-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:30:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2Nk-0001Fv-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:14:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2Nj-0001F5-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:14:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43735 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2Nj-0001Et-NB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:14:47 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:3160 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LU2Nj-0001OK-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:14:47 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AswEAGy4hknO+IQk/2dsb2JhbACBbsonhBQGgmw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,366,1231131600"; d="scan'208";a="33208729" Original-Received: from 206-248-132-36.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.132.36]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 02 Feb 2009 12:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 40C98B41AA; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 17:11:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Jason A. Spiro's message of "Sun, 1 Feb 2009 01:47:48 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108601 Archived-At: > I know two things: > 1. fix Vimpulse's most serious bugs: it is currently buggy > 2. do copyright assignment: it hasn't been done yet, and Donald > Robertson, GNU copyright clerk, said it must wait until you accept > vimpulse into Emacs. (The two main authors have agreed that they will > assign copyright when needed.) I don't know what Donald was talking about, but step 2 can be done at any time: 2a. send a "request-assign.changes" for past and future changes to Emacs. 2b. once this is done (and before inclusion), send an email to assign@gnu.org indicating that you consider vimpulse.el as being covered by the previous assignment. Of course there are other steps: 3. Get it accepted. 4. Get it included. Step 3 may require some more changes to better integrate it with Emacs/Viper/Younameit. Step 4 may require waiting for a good window (typically the best time is right after a release). Stefan