From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:27:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k0fn8od1.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30652"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Akira Kyle Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 31 05:29:12 2021 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 1n39XT-0007ln-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:29:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51660 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39XS-00060r-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:29:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39VQ-0001I6-P6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:27:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=38890 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39VQ-00007F-EG; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:27:04 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=j9SNIF7msg1yB3zYT0AetyKRfYSvmwhI42dYF3j/XBI=; b=nzdsFxhKuhFv iZU9DuPotvpveZatde0soBRQe7WQdZbJFd66mFmw/4jIXiAlEuWHCfMXDyNvht8XGCoT2Teh5YshJ fL+H31p9JQzSHEmrS0lfKpoklZvXxAhcE4tL6s0YaHYqVC7SFsrjiGjdgDO3U2wEuliHzwHgp2GbL 13KIkG14jSqWCQgscv0iX9UDSeE/vKRXe2aB8tw1CHKGGCPQSyV1yvfDIKvGRmXVlTOMXlqH1vBv6 rr+137t9VU3X2locZz0G3kAdL6lmEmysOtSvQLjTKuTdevNZkZuKnwo63MOZhdkNo/fCw5kqOFaJ4 g3uFcLrNJ2OyHMBNcntHiQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n39VQ-0005rZ-LS; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:27:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Akira Kyle on Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:40:59 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:283706 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. ]]] > I wish this process was more transparent than "send an email to > assign@gnu.org and wait for a response". Why can't there be some > webpage that outlines the process along with the necessary forms that > I can follow and collect then send to assign@gnu.org? The instructions would have to be complex and state various if-then's. Interpreting them would take time and thought, and would be unreliable. So we decided that our staff should ask the contributor for the pertinent facts and then tell per what papers to use. It is faster and less work for the contributor, and less likely to lead to errors. Just in case this might have changed in the past few years, I am asking the staff to verify this. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)