Re: Contributor to Autoconf

[Akim Demaille]

|       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.

Really?  Is 20% higher than the maintainers' rate?  :)

| 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.

I guess so.  But I'm already stacking too many easy jobs.


| 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?

The silence was an answer :(  We will continue as before: when one of
us will have a slot for an easy job.  But we will do it even better
than before.