From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: BBDB v3 approaching release Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 11:13:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20899.5836.285028.24953@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369667651 9745 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2013 15:14:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:14:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Liu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 27 17:14:09 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ugz7g-0007sL-GL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 17:14:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57402 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ugz7g-0000Xg-1e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 11:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ugz7Y-0000XO-Rw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 11:14:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ugz7T-0001Wk-T6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 11:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:5291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ugz7T-0001Wg-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2013 11:13:55 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCpOt/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALDiYSFBgNJIgkwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCpOt/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALDiYSFBgNJIgkwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="14609936" Original-Received: from 76-10-147-173.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.147.173]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 27 May 2013 11:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BDDE267ACB; Mon, 27 May 2013 11:13:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Leo Liu's message of "Mon, 27 May 2013 16:49:28 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159836 Archived-At: >> - What needs to be done to actually release BBDB so that users can >> download the tar ball from some server? How to arrange for >> something like a checksum so that users can trust the tar ball? > GNU ELPA is good for distribution. But it's only for code whose copyright was assigned to the FSF. While BBDBv3 has a lot of new code by Roland, AFAICT it still shares a non-trivial amount of code with the old codebase for which we don't have copyright assignments. Stefan