From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lua mode Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:20:47 +0200 Message-ID: <85br2fc6y8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20050927054120.GB2385@www.trapp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127809129 16605 80.91.229.2 (27 Sep 2005 08:18:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christian.Vogler@gallaudet.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 27 10:18:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKAeE-0008Gs-An for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:17:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKAeC-000170-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 04:17:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EKAD9-0001uX-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EKACZ-0001RD-Qb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:48:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKABK-0008UV-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:47:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EK9lh-0006mv-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EK9lf-0003mX-SJ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 596691C4CD7E; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:20:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: tomas@tuxteam.de (Tomas Zerolo) In-Reply-To: <20050927054120.GB2385@www.trapp.net> (Tomas Zerolo's message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:41:20 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:43282 Archived-At: tomas@tuxteam.de (Tomas Zerolo) writes: > I'm an user of Lua mode, written by Christian Vogler et > al. Yesterday I contacted him, asking what he thinks about > integrating it into the Emacs distribution. > > He kindly answered that he would be fine with that but then would > have to hand off maintenance due to lack of time. So I offered to do > the footwork (meaning he did the hard work and I make now the noise > ;-) > > Christian is OK signing papers, I'd have to approach the other > authors bfore anything goes (I'd have to sign papers as well). > > Now I haven't maintained any Emacs package up to now, so I would > very much appreciate your guidance, if this thing happens. > > One thing Christian wishes is that the package continues to work > well with XEmacs. Thus I might need special guidance with those of > you experienced in maintenance of such dual packages. You have to be aware that the package in the CVS will be distributed as part of Emacs, and thus it has to be under the GPL, and every contributor needs to have his copyright assigned to the FSF. XEmacs development headquarters in general does not bother about assignments too much. That means that if you have XEmacs-only contributors, they can't work even on the XEmacs parts of LUA-mode without assigning copyright to the FSF, and some XEmacs contributors/developers would rather refrain than do that (some prefer XEmacs for exactly that reason). So that's the downpoint. With regard to XEmacs support: the current maintainer of the mode (in this case, you) decides about the policies. That would mean it would be basically your responsibility to make reasonably sure the stuff continues working under XEmacs in case other Emacs developers make additions and fixes. If you pass on maintainership at some point of time, finding an XEmacs-aware successor might be more difficult with the mode being maintained as part of Emacs. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum