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: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:45:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lgo1fv0c.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87fue41lsj.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 1499773632 4989 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2017 11:47:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, 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 13:47:08 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 1dUtd6-0000lk-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:47:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45646 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtdC-0004oD-BG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46090) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtd0-0004nF-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:46:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtd0-0003Jz-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:46:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59629) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtby-0002dH-QK; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtby-0004cJ-3V; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:45:50 -0400 In-reply-to: <87fue41lsj.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:216466 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. ]]] > Well, I need to add something to the README file, but I never got around > to it. From a practical POV, though, this also means potentially not > accepting pull requests from people, till the assignment has happened, > which is likely to be weeks to months. Now that everything is done on-line, the process should normally take a few days, unless the clerk is on vacation for a week. Would you please start asking all new dash contributors to sign papers before you put in their contributions? > > The best solution for this hassle is to avoid it -- by collecting > > legal papers as the package is developed. > It doesn't avoid the hassle. It just makes it a hassle at the point at > which people first contribute. It is much less of a hassle if done at that time. 1. There is no hassle of figuring out who to ask for papers. 2. There is no hassle in finding them. 3. They have a motivation to sign, so it is not hard to convince them. 4. The task feels like less hassle since it consists of a small job once in a while. -- 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.