From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii 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 17:09:26 +0300 Message-ID: <83blmq6221.fsf@gnu.org> 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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="64515"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: alan@idiocy.org, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, casouri@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ndame@protonmail.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 14 16:10:36 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 1jZEZH-000Gdw-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 16:10:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58384 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZEZG-0002SS-Ie for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 10:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZEYY-0001Yx-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 10:09:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33666) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZEYX-0002uU-Lx; Thu, 14 May 2020 10:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3326 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jZEYQ-0001Om-0J; Thu, 14 May 2020 10:09:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 14 May 2020 01:08:33 -0400) 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:250243 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:08:33 -0400 > 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 > > 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. Normally such commits should have a telltale header in the log message saying this was accepted without papers. Of course, sometimes people (including myself) forget, and Git doesn't allow amending commit log messages post-factum, so the error stays there forever.