From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:29:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499272336 6556 195.159.176.226 (5 Jul 2017 16:32:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 16:32:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 05 18:32:12 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 1dSnDl-0001LP-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:32:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSnDr-00044c-6U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:32:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSnBU-00032w-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSnBR-0007N4-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53907 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSnBQ-0007Mc-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:29:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dSnBH-0002PG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:29:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:6DujIIK+BUKtNHHkq2a/nTbz94g= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:216186 Archived-At: >> I wish someone would write a package comparable to Magit that >> we could get legal papers for and include it in Emacs. > I cannot let this go without commenting. Do you understand what > you are advocating? FWIW, I fully agree with John that developing a "replacement" for Magit just because we can't get the copyright paperwork would be harmful at best. A much more constructive path would be to figure out *how* to get Magit into GNU ELPA (i.e. start collecting copyright paperwork from the various contributors, look at the code that's not yet covered to see what we could about it, consider maybe a subset of Magit, consider tweaking the policy for GNU ELPA, ...). Stefan