Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?

[Alan Third]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 05:09:26PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:08:33 -0400
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> >  address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> >  address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > We can install small changes without papers, so the fact that a person's
> > name is on a change is not proof that we got an assignment from per.
> 
> Normally such commits should have a telltale header in the log message
> saying this was accepted without papers.  Of course, sometimes people
> (including myself) forget, and Git doesn't allow amending commit log
> messages post-factum, so the error stays there forever.

Yes, I wouldn’t commit a change on the strength of a small number of
short commits, but if they had a few large commits I’d have to assume
they’re good.

-- 
Alan Third