ELPA

[naphthalene]

It would be nice to be able to pull this from the main package repositories (Emacs 24+)

[wasamasa]

I agree. The main difficulty with adding a package to GNU ELPA is convincing anyone who has contributed non-trivial (read: more than five lines of diff) amounts of code to sign the FSF copyright assignment form. I have already done this, however it's unclear whether any other contributors did or are willing to. Due to this complication people only bother with this for either popular packages with a great benefit or new ones that don't have a complicated history.

Ping @yoshiki @antalk2 @mmckinst @timcharper @SamB @Wilfred @wentasah.

edit: Also, there's a Marshall T. Vandegrift listed as other author besides @yoshiki. That makes eight people to get confirmation from :D

[antalk2]

It would be nice to be able to pull this from the main package repositories (Emacs 24+)

I agree, too.

to sign the FSF copyright assignment form.

I would. How can I do that?

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I am sorry, but now that I saw the FSF copyright assignment form, I would rather not sign it.
There is too much in it that I either do not understand or means something
different than I expected or wanted.

I only touched two lines of code in

• (1) 3362e1b

  and

• (2) 6ddd552

The rest are test cases: they are mostly textual description of what to expect for what actions and
typically 2-3 lines of actual sample data.

So maybe the amount I contributed does not make it necessary to create a legal document.

• If it does, please let me know. Then we need an alternative to the FSF form.

[Wilfred]

I've already done FSF assignment, FWIW. I know there's a FSF machine that has a list of people who have already assigned: abo-abo/swiper#577 (comment)

To assign copyright for your contributions, just email assign@gnu.org and tell them you want to assign copyright for your Emacs-related contributions. They'll tell you what to do.

[timcharper]

Emailed.

[wentasah]

I also wrote them.

(For others: They seem to need the information described in http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=tree;f=doc/Copyright;hb=HEAD)

[mmckinst]

There's 4 of them listed in there. Which of those am I supposed to fill out and email them?

[wasamasa]

@mmckinst You're not supposed to fill one out upfront. Write an email to the above address and wait for further instructions.

[mmckinst]

OK. I've emailed them. FWIW my contribution was pretty trivial since I just updated the FSF address and added a copy of the GPLv2 but will assign copyright regardless.

[yoshiki]

I agree too.
I would send email to assign copyright. Emailed.

[naphthalene]

Any news on this?

[wentasah]

I wait for my employer to sign the paper.

[yoshiki]

My assignment/disclaimer process with the FSF is complete.
Any update on this?

[wasamasa]

I've updated the initial list. The thing is that inclusion into GNU ELPA can only proceed once every non-trivial submission had its author tracked down and their assignment has been done.

[wentasah]

My assignment process is complete as well.

[mmckinst]

I just finally mailed mine today, not sure what the turnaround time is for snail mail.

There's still the issue of the code antalk2 submitted...

Once the copyright is all assigned to the FSF, I wonder if this could all just be moved to the emacs project so yaml-mode comes direct from emacs?

[mmckinst]

My copyright assignment to the FSF has been completed.

[wasamasa]

@mmckinst Thank you! Regarding your previous question, it's become unusual to include more into the Emacs sources, save for a few very convincing cases (like xref). It's likelier that with this, yaml-mode could be included into GNU ELPA.

[naphthalene]

Looks like @SamB is left then? Thank you all for taking the time to do this! 👍