From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:27:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fue7c32j.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87k23g1ms2.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499729320 25215 195.159.176.226 (10 Jul 2017 23:28:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, rgm@gnu.org, ken.manheimer@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 11 01:28:36 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUi6U-0006Io-Pv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:28:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43431 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUi6a-0006ql-44 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:28:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUi6O-0006oS-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUi6O-0004ZN-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:28:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49762) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUi5Q-0003zI-24; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dUi5O-0003Ba-RW; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:27:26 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k23g1ms2.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216447 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > We don't have to wait till there are only 4 nonsigning contributors to > > start steps 9 and 10. It would be feasible to do with 10 or 20 or 50 > > contributors left out, if their code is small. Thus, I suggest > > identifying after a few months those whose code is not too hard to > > replace. > Actually, I do this at the beginning. Not all contributors actually have > code in the current version, so it's good to know this from the > start. For dash, I just asked everybody, though, on the basis that if > they had code in before, they might do in the future. That's a wise approach. It can't hurt to invite the not-actual-contributors to sign -- but there is no need to wait until they do. However, I was talking about a point that is slightly broader. The point is that we can cope with more than 4 nonsigners, if their contributions are not crucial. That is important if there are more people we cannot contact. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.