Re: Contributor to Autoconf

[Richard Stallman]

      I would like to suggest that a web
    page be written especially for people like Ilya, 

Do you mean that we would ask each contributor to read the page
and decide which papers to use?  That would be too unreliable.
Probably 20% of them would get it wrong.

That is why we ask the maintainers to decide what papers to use, and
tell the contributor.  The maintainers can learn to do this properly,
and after that, do it reliably.

                                                     since I don't have
    more time to spend on this issue than Jessica.

If you have time to consider his changes and decide whether to install
them, you have time to decide what papers are needed, because that is
a much easier job.

It is not necessary for every maintainer to deal with papers,
but we need some maintainers to do it.  Who is willing to do it?