On Thu Jan 20 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: > Let me know when you've figured out what portions and authors need to be > tracked down. I'll work with Chong Yidong and you to do it.
I'll try to make some kind of table that shows how the functionality in the current code (functions and variables) relates to the old BBDB code. Then hopefully it will become more clear to what extent which parts of BBDB still contain old code. Then we can go from there. On Thu Jan 20 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote: > AFAICT the main problem will be that Jamie is known for refusing > to sign any copyright assignment for the FSF, and he's the > original author, so any code of his that survived will need a > rewrite. I remember having heard this previously. Yet I was surprised I found his name in emacs/etc/AUTHORS. Anyway, I found that rewriting old code often makes it overall more coherent and useful. So from that perspective (apart from the work it requires!) it is often for the benefit of the program. > For your own code, AFAIK your general assignment can be sufficient under > the condition that you send an email to ass...@gnu.org telling them that > you consider this code to be covered by your assignment (this is because > bbdb is not part of Emacs). I guess this can happen as soon as we know better about other contributors to BBD. (But I'd also be happt to do this right away.) > Hopefully your BBDB revival (and inclusion in the FSF's ELPA) will > bring new blood. E.g. I've bumped into a few issues in the past > but, for lack of a place where to report them, I never bothered to > send a patch. Let me know! > Talking about feedback: is there some warning/discussion about the > change of format somewhere? I'm very happy with your BBDB3 > overall, but the change of format is rather inconvenient The latest check-in included an update of the README file so that now it has such a warning. I understand that proper documentation is quite important for BBDB. Unfortunately there is only so much time I can spend on these things. > (I share my bbdb file among several machines and would prefer to > not have to upgrade them all at the same time). I am using rsync to synchronize the files on different computers I am working with. I find this piece of software quite amazing! Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
