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[Erc-help] Assimilating contributions on the list

[Michael O. <mw...@gn...>]

Out of curiosity, how do ERC developers usually deal with
patches/programs that are introduced on the mailing list?  Is there
anyone who decides whether or not the change is useful and installs
it?

That brings me to another question: how is the 5.0 release branch
usually put to use?  I thought that it was for the preparation of
releases on the 5.0 series.  I have a vague feeling that I might be
misusing it, so let me know if I'm not doing the right thing with it.

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Re: [Erc-help] Assimilating contributions on the list

[Jorgen S. <fo...@fo...>]

Michael Olson <mw...@gn...> writes:

> Out of curiosity, how do ERC developers usually deal with
> patches/programs that are introduced on the mailing list?  Is there
> anyone who decides whether or not the change is useful and installs
> it?

Any ERC developer who thinks the patch is useful applies it. The
same as any ERC developer who thinks he has some useful code just
applies it. :-)

The next thing is that the same ERC developer (or kensanata,
whoever is first) should look for copyright assignments. I'm not
too up-to-date on that ;-)

> That brings me to another question: how is the 5.0 release
> branch usually put to use?

Honest reply: Not at all (at least by me).

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Re: [Erc-help] Assimilating contributions on the list

[Alex S. <al...@gn...>]

Jorgen Schaefer schrieb:

>The next thing is that the same ERC developer (or kensanata,
>whoever is first) should look for copyright assignments. I'm not
>too up-to-date on that ;-)
>  
>
Heh.  With not using ERC that often anymore, I think it is time to pass 
this on to the next person.  Michael seems to be taking over, and that's 
fine with me.

I'm actually thinking that maybe rcirc is ready for prime-time, and much 
smaller, and no copyright issues -- so maybe we should get rcirc into 
Emacs first...

>>That brings me to another question: how is the 5.0 release
>>branch usually put to use?
>>    
>>
Same here.  For releases 3 and 4 we just had a feature freeze for a few 
days after deciding that now was a good time, packed HEAD into a 
tarball, and continued with business as usual.  No bug-fix releases.

Alex.

[Erc-help] Re: Assimilating contributions on the list

[Adrian A. <ad...@xe...>]

Alex Schroeder <al...@gn...> writes:

> Jorgen Schaefer schrieb:
>
>>The next thing is that the same ERC developer (or kensanata,
>>whoever is first) should look for copyright assignments. I'm not
>>too up-to-date on that ;-)
>>
>>
> Heh.  With not using ERC that often anymore, I think it is time to
> pass this on to the next person.  Michael seems to be taking over, and
> that's fine with me.
>
> I'm actually thinking that maybe rcirc is ready for prime-time, and
> much smaller, and no copyright issues -- so maybe we should get rcirc

Hi Alex, I was not aware erc had copyright issues.

What are they?

Is it because of contributions without papers?

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/rcirc
says rcirc is not part of the GNU project.

Yet it uses the GPL V2.

Adrian

> into Emacs first...
>
>>>That brings me to another question: how is the 5.0 release
>>>branch usually put to use?
>>>
>>>
> Same here.  For releases 3 and 4 we just had a feature freeze for a
> few days after deciding that now was a good time, packed HEAD into a
> tarball, and continued with business as usual.  No bug-fix releases.
>
> Alex.
>
>
>
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Re: [Erc-help] Re: Assimilating contributions on the list

[Alex S. <al...@gn...>]

Adrian Aichner schrieb:

> Hi Alex, I was not aware erc had copyright issues.

Keeping track of all the contributors, having them sign the papers, and 
at the same time releasing a version, and moving our stuff to the Emacs 
CVS repository...  In the two years or so I've been watching ERC there 
just never seemed to be the right time.  But I've also treated it as a 
low-priority item after the first few days...  So really, n=1 for the 
sample of people thinking that we might have a problem...

>Yet it uses the GPL V2.
>  
>
The two have very little to do with each other.  GNU is a project of the 
FSF, and GPL is a license of the FSF.  But not every piece of software 
using the GPL is part of GNU and the same is true the other way arround.

Alex.