On Fri Dec 17 2010 Ted Zlatanov wrote: > You should decide: > > - do you want to take patches from Emacs or keep them separate?
I'll be happy to take patches from anybody, if they help to fix bugs in the code or to improve the code in any other way. If it turns out that a patch collides with anything else in BBDB (not all ideas that I put into the new code or that I have in the back of my mind have been spelled out yet) I might take the liberty to try to improve it. > - do you want to make BBDB provided with Emacs 24 by default through > package.el? (I want to be clear about this, people will be able to > install it very easily.) Again: this is certainly fine with me. The only issue might be: I hope that upon the release of Emacs 24 the new BBDB will have reached at least a more stable beta phase. (A rewrite of the info pages stands out as a larger task where I cannot make predictions how long this might take. Apart from that, right now I have only some smaller todo items I want to get done in the near future.) The major issue will be to accumulate some feedback from users of the new code. > - can you work with me and the Emacs maintainers to assign the BBDB > source code to the FSF? We'll need to track down a lot of > contributors and possibly rewrite code. Again: fine with me! -- I don't know what "rewrite" means from the legal perspective that matters here. If you simply compared the new and old code line by line, I doubt that you might find more than a few percent that have not been changed / rewritten more or less substantially. On the other hand, I tried to preserve major concepts of BBDB that appeared quite reasonable to me. > If the last one is too much work or not OK with the BBDB > developers, ...For the new code I have not yet found anybody who might want to help with it. In that sense, I can speak here without further consultation for all (current) BBDB developpers. But: any hep is appreciated! Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
