From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: why was iso-acc.el removed from master? Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:58:50 +0000 Message-ID: <8760wto0fp.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87fuvyuu4y.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457686774 8397 80.91.229.3 (11 Mar 2016 08:59:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:59:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 09:59:26 2016 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 1aeIuq-0004Ag-P6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:59:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53476 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeIul-0006fK-6O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 03:59:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeIuh-0006fB-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 03:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeIuc-0006oU-CE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 03:59:15 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46612) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeIuc-0006oG-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 03:59:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aeIuV-00041N-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:59:03 +0100 Original-Received: from gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es ([147.96.12.99]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:59:03 +0100 Original-Received: from oub by gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:59:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130016 (Ma Gnus v0.16) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ch4W0+rtomed+8oAIS/4D6eNy8g= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:201453 Archived-At: >>> "John" == John Wiegley writes: Hi John, >>>>>> Uwe Brauer writes: >> I just run a git pull, and saw that iso-acc.el got removed. >> Why is this feature removed? > Hi Uwe, > We had a lengthy discussion on this list about when to deprecate > modules, and when to remove old ones, so that we can cease > maintaining them, and close out any bugs pertaining to them. > At the time, no one cried out for iso-acc.el to be kept. That is one of the reasons for me to hang around here: to catch up such discussions, but I must have missed it. Do you remember when it was approximately? > My preferred method for restoring this behavior now would be for > you to become its maintainer in the form of a GNU ELPA package. Or, > if you have an argument as to why it should not be deleted from > Emacs -- aside from the fact that you yourself rely on it -- please > let me know. Ok, this is fair enough, but I confess I use iso-accentuate, but I actually do not understand much of it, I do understand more or less iso-accentuate and iso-deaccentuate but not the rest. Eli just asked me what I need it for and I replied. So of course if there were other solutions to my problem, this discussion would be finished. In case there are not and I would agree to be the maintainer, I then have to sign FSF copyright? Could I do that by email (scanned signed document)? BTW since we are now in the 21 century, is there any change that one could simply signed these papers by a pgp/smime key or are US courts not that modern :'( Uwe