Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>,
>>   address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 10:41:24 -0700
>> 
>> >> git log --format="%aE" | sort | uniq ?
>> >
>> > This needs to be audited to exclude people who don't have assignment.
>> 
>> I suppose listing committer instead of author would do it
>> (--format="%cE"), since we're literally only interested in who can
>> commit.
>
> Are we?  I thought this was about knowing when a contributor has an
> assignment on file, for people who don't have access to "the file"
> itself.  Most contributors who went through the legal paperwork and
> assigned copyright to the FSF don't have write access to the
> repository.

Oh, then I guess author is more relevant after all, sorry about that.