From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:53:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> <877dxme268.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="130948"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eric@ericabrahamsen.net, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ndame@protonmail.com To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 05:54:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGZ3-000Xvm-Mu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 05:54:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48598 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGZ1-00037v-Ia for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53926) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGYV-0002JD-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:53:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGYU-0006Dt-Mx; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXGYR-0004xr-TO; Fri, 08 May 2020 23:53:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877dxme268.fsf@russet.org.uk> (message from Phillip Lord on Fri, 08 May 2020 19:01:35 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249352 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. ]]] > Perhaps, but at least be aware of the inconvenience and do all that you > can to lessen the inconvenience. I agree with this goal. In fact, we have made it considerably less work, since contributors can now send in the forms digitally. That takes a lot less time. I'm in favor in principle of automating the checking, at least partially. But we need to carefully study the details. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)