From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Submission of Matrix Kronecker Product for calc Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:56:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <85hcfk6cxo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204916238 15222 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2008 18:57:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 19:57:42 2008 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 1JXhlF-0002dz-Jx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:57:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXhkh-0005bE-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXhkc-0005aM-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:57:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXhkb-0005Zk-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:57:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXhka-0005Za-UU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:57:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXhka-0000XL-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:57:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JXhkZ-0004AU-Bc; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:56:59 -0500 X-Spook: JFK Watergate Blowfish Panama Medco KGB embassy STARLAN X-Ran: TAmJ.5#0Ck:WmAcY(ITq$I3X+"dK.%y*ZwGpqRrZPB5hY5LVr6:e@2C2H(B"^PV3WcO}a$ X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:91660 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > For a medium-size contribution, a disclaimer is just fine. > It is only for large amounts of code that we prefer an assignment. > > Also, if someone wants to keep contributing, the past-and-future > assignment has the advantage that it will cover future work. > But if someone doesn't expect to contribute more later, > thns advantage doesn't apply. Isn't there something to be said for: i) assuming that contributors will want to continue contributing; and ii) trying to minimize the number of pieces of paper people have to sign? I've always offered assign-past-and-future for the whole of Emacs as a default option to contributors, no matter how much they contribute initially. Should I stop doing this? Is there some reason to actually _prefer_ a disclaimer for smaller changes?