From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.auctex.devel Subject: Re: CVS repository synchronization for RefTeX Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:48:07 +0100 Message-ID: <8664boo5rs.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <87k60b7hv5.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <87sley46bb.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <87wt491b46.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <854praka6x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <861wmdq3et.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167814132 9998 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2007 08:48:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: angeli@caeruleus.net, auctex-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, carsten.dominik@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 03 09:48:48 2007 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 1H21ni-0004nP-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:48:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H21ng-00022w-Ke for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H21nO-00021m-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H21nN-00020d-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H21nM-00020O-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.67.228.11] (helo=pc3.berlin.powerweb.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H21nM-0001pi-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from quinscape.de (pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.91.15.219]) by pc3.berlin.powerweb.de (8.9.3p3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA31137 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 09:48:16 +0100 X-Delivered-To: Original-Received: (qmail 7566 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2007 08:48:16 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Jan 2007 08:48:16 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3F6C723861; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 09:48:07 +0100 (CET) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 02 Jan 2007 16\:24\:30 -0500") 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:64673 gmane.emacs.auctex.devel:1507 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I mean, let us just ask: are there any Emacs developers > listening who can imagine themselves working on RefTeX? > > I am not sure why that question is relevant. We may have a shortage > of people who would want to maintain RefTeX, but that isn't a matter > of where the repository is. > > Given that RefTeX has a separate repository already, I don't think > there is any harm in moving it, as such. (I already said so.) It hasn't: Carsten has worked on it basically without version control or at least version logs at home. He considered the history in the Emacs ChangeLog to be much more relevant than what he got himself. > However, moving it into the AUCTeX repository creates a possible > specific risk. Namely, the risk that AUCTeX contributors who have not > signed papers might put changes into RefTeX also. No, that risk does not exist. We don't give CVS access to AUCTeX developers not having signed papers. The assignment problems of AUCTeX only concern old code, and not all of it (for example, preview-latex, a subsystem of AUCTeX, is completely covered). > the time frame for folding AUCTeX into Emacs will probably be > still years because of copyright paper reasons (we are > progressing there, but not really fast). > > Are there any current contributors to AUCTeX who have not yet signed > papers for Emacs (which would include RefTeX)? No. It is only old contributors, and we covered all of the principal ones. The rest may be a lot of work, but the actual amounts of code concerned are not too extensive as far as I can see. -- David Kastrup