On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:24:18 -0600 "Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> wrote:
RW> On Fri Dec 17 2010 Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> You should decide: >> >> - do you want to take patches from Emacs or keep them separate? RW> I'll be happy to take patches from anybody, if they help to fix bugs RW> in the code or to improve the code in any other way. If it turns out RW> that a patch collides with anything else in BBDB (not all ideas that RW> I put into the new code or that I have in the back of my mind have RW> been spelled out yet) I might take the liberty to try to improve it. Sure. I doubt this will be a problem; the major issues will probably be with code style and the manuals. >> - 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.) RW> Again: this is certainly fine with me. The only issue might be: I RW> hope that upon the release of Emacs 24 the new BBDB will have RW> reached at least a more stable beta phase. (A rewrite of the info RW> pages stands out as a larger task where I cannot make predictions RW> how long this might take. Apart from that, right now I have only RW> some smaller todo items I want to get done in the near future.) RW> The major issue will be to accumulate some feedback from users of RW> the new code. I'd be OK with providing BBDB3 in a beta form through elpa.gnu.org. As long as the version string states it clearly, which it will. You are likely to get plenty of feedback. >> - 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. RW> Again: fine with me! -- I don't know what "rewrite" means from the RW> legal perspective that matters here. If you simply compared the new RW> and old code line by line, I doubt that you might find more than a RW> few percent that have not been changed / rewritten more or less RW> substantially. On the other hand, I tried to preserve major concepts RW> of BBDB that appeared quite reasonable to me. A rewrite is the worst case, where you can't find the original contributor or they are not willing to assign the copyright to the FSF. (CC to Chong Yidong in case he wants to comment) If BBDB3 is written by you then you have the copyright AFAIK. We need to find the code that you did not write and track down the authors. Can you do the first part? >> If the last one is too much work or not OK with the BBDB >> developers, RW> ...For the new code I have not yet found anybody who might want to RW> help with it. In that sense, I can speak here without further RW> consultation for all (current) BBDB developpers. That's wonderful. Thank you for working on this functionality and I look foward to helping you test and document it. Ted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
