From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Assignment overview (again) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:37:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83si2rmyd1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wps3r6df.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450986970 10680 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2015 19:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 19:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 24 20:56:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aCBzT-000833-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 20:55:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33201 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCBhW-0000h1-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:37:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCBhH-0000gF-5R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:37:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCBhC-0007QS-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:37:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCBhC-0007QK-GT; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:37:06 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3206 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aCBhC-0005uX-18; Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:37:06 -0500 In-reply-to: <87wps3r6df.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 24 Dec 2015 20:31:08 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196795 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 20:31:08 +0100 > > One of the most irksome tasks when applying patches from others is > finding out whether they've made copyright assignments. I can either > send them an email asking them ("Yeah, and you've applied thirteen > patches from me from 1997-2014"; I have no memory for these things at > all) or ask somebody else, and that all takes time. > > I can't be the only one that has this problem. You aren't. If you have an account on fencepost.gnu.org, you can look them up in the list that is maintained there. Failing that, ask here, or email me or John privately. > Is it totally out of the question to put the assignment list up on the > web somewhere? I don't think we can, it includes personal details of people, sometimes details they don't want to publish (like real names of people who use pseudonyms).