Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I wish this process was more transparent than "send an email to
  > assign@gnu.org and wait for a response". Why can't there be some
  > webpage that outlines the process along with the necessary forms that
  > I can follow and collect then send to assign@gnu.org?

The instructions would have to be complex and state various if-then's.
Interpreting them would take time and thought, and would be
unreliable.

So we decided that our staff should ask the contributor for the
pertinent facts and then tell per what papers to use.  It is faster
and less work for the contributor, and less likely to lead to errors.

Just in case this might have changed in the past few years, I am
asking the staff to verify this.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)