From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A new major-mode for Python Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:44:58 -0500 Message-ID: <87pqqsda79.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297820716 25109 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2011 01:45:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Emacs-Devel devel To: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 16 02:45:12 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PpWS8-0002OE-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:45:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpWS7-0002Jk-Od for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:45:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53118 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpWS2-0002I8-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PpWS1-00076b-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.146]:41232) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PpWS1-00076T-04 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036225159.central.yale.edu [128.36.225.159]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1G1j2EH022673 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:45:02 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 69D0B1605B7; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:44:58 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:52:41 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.146 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.146 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:136084 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > So rather than replace our python.el with yours, I offer you to take > over maintainership of our python.el. This may sound like a crappy > offer (why would you maintain some old code you don't like when you > already have your own that works better, right?), but note that, as > a maintainer of our python.el, you'll have the opportunity to replace > pretty much any of "our" code with yours, thus morphing our python.el > into yours. > > Another way to look at it, is that I'm asking you to take a "diff > old-python.el new-python.el" and cut it into manageable and meaningful > patches, so it is easier to see that it is moving forward. 100% agreement. Scanning through your version of python.el, the code looks to be of good quality. As Stefan said, merging it into our existing python.el is much better than setting up a wholesale replacement. Among other things, features won't get lost. So I hope you will agree to take this on. Should you be willing, we'll need a copyright assignment for your contributions to Emacs. This can be done by emailing the following information to fsf-records@gnu.org; they will send you the assignment form for your past and future changes. Please use your full legal name (in ASCII characters) as the subject line of the message. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REQUEST: SEND FORM FOR PAST AND FUTURE CHANGES [What is the name of the program or package you're contributing to?] GNU Emacs and python.el [Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes? Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.] [Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own your changes? Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?] [For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?] [What year were you born?] [Please write your email address here.] [Please write your postal address here.] [Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written so far?]