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Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit |
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Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:49:52 -0400 |
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>> which might warrant improving the copyright assignment mechanisms.
> I don't think the mechanism, as such, is much of an inconvenience any
> more. Isn't all the commnication is done digitally now?
I think Phillip's points are very valid: there are still friction
points, *especially* when the one doing the work is not a maintainer.
When I was Emacs maintainer, I'd be advised whenever a new assignment
for Emacs came in and I could easily check existing assignments, so it
was rather painless. I still have my fencepost.gnu.org account so I can
still easily check existing assignments, but I'm not informed any more
when a new assignment comes in.
In a sense the new process where the communication is all done
electronically has made those remaining friction points more apparent.
> The substantial part of the job is finding those people and asking
> them to please sign. But it's not terribly hard.
There's also finding who you need to contact, keeping track of the
status, reminding them after a while, ... maybe it's not *hard* but
it's tedious and it can eat a lot of time.
I really appreciated that Phillip did that work for dash, and
I think in general that's a kind of work that would benefit from being
delegated, but for that we need better access to the copyright.list
database for non-maintainers.
Stefan
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, (continued)
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Glenn Morris, 2017/07/05
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Ted Zlatanov, 2017/07/06
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Kaushal Modi, 2017/07/06
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Óscar Fuentes, 2017/07/06
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/06
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Ken Manheimer, 2017/07/06
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/07
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Phillip Lord, 2017/07/07
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Stefan Monnier, 2017/07/07
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/08
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/08
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Phillip Lord, 2017/07/08
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/08
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Phillip Lord, 2017/07/08
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/08
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/10
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Phillip Lord, 2017/07/10