Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Well, I need to add something to the README file, but I never got around
  > to it. From a practical POV, though, this also means potentially not
  > accepting pull requests from people, till the assignment has happened,
  > which is likely to be weeks to months.

Now that everything is done on-line, the process should normally take
a few days, unless the clerk is on vacation for a week.  Would you
please start asking all new dash contributors to sign papers
before you put in their contributions?

  > > The best solution for this hassle is to avoid it -- by collecting
  > > legal papers as the package is developed.

  > It doesn't avoid the hassle. It just makes it a hassle at the point at
  > which people first contribute.

It is much less of a hassle if done at that time.

1. There is no hassle of figuring out who to ask for papers.

2. There is no hassle in finding them.

3. They have a motivation to sign, so it is not hard
to convince them.

4. The task feels like less hassle since it consists of a small
job once in a while.


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