From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79345 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: contributing Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:09:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309659042 10544 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2011 02:10:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 02:10:42 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27641@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jul 03 04:10:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdC8q-0006yc-SL for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:10:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QdC7t-0007tR-Cg; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:09:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QdC7r-0007tE-KT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QdC7q-0000Sr-0w for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QdC7n-0004QC-6G for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:09:31 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdC7k-0006lM-Sl for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:09:28 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:09:28 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:09:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P+wIEP4yPL5j1XfdPm1Ry0+VTI4= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79345 Archived-At: on Sat Jul 02 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Dave Abrahams writes: > >> I'll soon have some (mostly documentation) patches I'd like to >> contribute. What's the prescribed way to submit patches to Gnus? > > If you don't have git commit access, posting the patches here would be > the best way. I don't have commit access on your repository. I'll be pushing my changes in a publicly-visible repository on GitHub, though. It would be easiest for me to drop pointers here to topic branches in that repository, but I'm happy to submit patches as well. > Do you have FSF copyright assignment papers for Emacs on file? I don't know about "on file" but years ago I went through the process of approving the use of my Emacs contributions. It's been so long that I don't remember whether it involved any physical paper. I hope that's better than "completely unhelpful" :-) -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com