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: One-click copyright assignments? Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:28:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1489426281 31578 195.159.176.226 (13 Mar 2017 17:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:31:21 +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 Mon Mar 13 18:31:16 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 1cnToN-0007J3-9y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:31:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53532 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnToT-0000jM-F1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:31:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59609) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnToL-0000j6-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnToG-0001mR-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37981 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnToG-0001lo-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:31:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cnTlv-0001nn-L7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:28:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZL+UPrYrnoT78zYBgMmsqgupJxU= 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:212994 Archived-At: >> - make it so the web-form doesn't send an email to assign@gnu.org >> (i.e. to Donald who's already busy enough) but should instead >> automatically return the appropriate PDF. I understand that in some >> cases, a human might be needed, but we should be able to arrange for >> the web-form to cover 99% of the needs. > To implement this would require a volunteer who is very reliable > and could work under Donald's direction. But before that step there's another step: setup a web-form. This web-form could send an email to assign@gnu.org, so it wouldn't involve any real change to the process, other than advertising the copyright-assignment process a bit more (and potentially help the author give well-structured details since the web-form can enforce more structure than an email). Stefan