From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documenting FSF copyright assignment process Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:38:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83k1fvib9m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1554939201.27299.0@yandex.ru> <837ec0645s.fsf@gnu.org> <22ed873d-e4ff-2049-1a9d-b76f2abbaab2@cs.ucla.edu> <87r2a3xvh7.fsf@russet.org.uk> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="160222"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 15 16:39:32 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hG2le-000fX8-EO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:39:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51129 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hG2ld-00030j-4N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56403) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hG2l4-00030O-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:38:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57039) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hG2l4-0007fh-2O; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3348 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hG2l3-0003Oa-Dv; Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:38:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r2a3xvh7.fsf@russet.org.uk> (message from Phillip Lord on Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:13:08 +0100) 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: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235484 Archived-At: > From: Phillip Lord > Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:13:08 +0100 > Cc: Stefan Monnier > > There are around 1.2k developers who have contributed to MELPA (which is > a good lower bound for the number of somewhat current Emacs-lisp > developers), or 1.8k developers in AUTHORS (which is a good lower bound > for the number of Emacs-lisp developers in all history), or 1.8k who > have contributed to an MELPA package at all (which is another good lower > bound for emacs-lisp developers). > > It's a big number. A better system would be worthwhile. If it's possible, I certainly would welcome a more versatile and dynamic system for that. But this is something the FSF should do, not the Emacs project. We are just one customer of that system.