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Re: Contributing other person's work


From: 조성빈
Subject: Re: Contributing other person's work
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 02:02:07 +0900

> 2019. 5. 20. 오전 1:51, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 작성:
> 
>> How does the workflow work exactly?̊̈
>> If I send the patch by email, does one of the core contributors apply the
>> patch onto the current HEAD of remote?
> 
> Yes, that's one way.  Another is to point to a Git branch.
> I'm not sure whether we want the faithful commit history in this case:
> I usually like it, but if there's been too many "merge from master"
> that end up drowning the real commits, it might be worth the trouble of
> reworking the history a bit (e.g. going back to the last real commit
> merge that into master).  Also, the commit messages may require
> improvements, which would again require rewriting the history.

I would like the patch workflow better as I was maintaining the patch only :-)

>>> He has: it's on file and everything.
>> As I haven’t signed before, can I ask how to sign the copyright assignment?
> 
> Sure: fill the form below and email it as instructed to the FSF so they
> can send you the relevant paperwork to sign,

Before I have to wait two weeks to get my paperwork (and it’s hard to get my 
paperwork as mail here for special reasons...),
I think(maybe not) I heard a news a year or two ago that FSF started to 
allowing digital signing with gpg…
Is that true? If it is, I would prefer the digital-way…

> 
>        Stefan
> 
> 
> Please email the following information to address@hidden, and we
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> [What is the name of the program or package you're contributing to?]
> Emacs
> 
> [Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes?
> Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.]
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> [Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own
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