From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2255 invoked by alias); 22 May 2003 08:34:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 1184 invoked from network); 22 May 2003 08:33:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 May 2003 08:33:49 -0000 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19IlWH-0006ve-Gh; Thu, 22 May 2003 04:33:49 -0400 From: Richard Stallman To: Gerald Pfeifer CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Gerald Pfeifer on Wed, 21 May 2003 14:01:23 +0200 (CEST)) Subject: Re: Manual contributions and copyright assignments Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References: Message-Id: Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:44:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01998.txt.bz2 RMS, how do you suggest to proceed practically? I wouldn't want to start micro-managing you ;-). This seems to affect more than 100 developers with CVS write access, any of which can commit patches of her/his own or others, You surely have some policies about which areas any given person can commit changes in. Right? So it is a matter of changing these policies. and about 700 contributors overall (according to /gd/gnuorg/copyright.list). What problem do they raise? I am worried about the idea that all 100 people with write access can install others' changes. That means we depend on all 100 of them to check properly for legal papers. It is unreliable to have 100 people doing this! I have no objection to your allowing 100 people to install their own changes--if you trust them, that's good enough for me. But unless you have very effective procedures for making sure all 100 people check papers properly, you should greatly reduce the people who are allowed to install changes other than their own. One idea is that each of these 100 people can have a list of those whose changes he can install. Some of them, you could trust to check papers just as you do. But most of them would have a specific list of names. If a person wants to add a name to his list, he asks you, and you check the papers.