bug#29108: 25.3; ERC SASL support

[Noam Postavsky]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Hi Joseph,

I think they're called Jane now.  The original repository indeed seems
to be gone, but it was already under username jane-lx which still
exists, see <https://github.com/jane-lx/> and the linked
<https://medium.com/@jane.lx.gay>.

> We are looking into adding SASL support to ERC in Emacs, which would
> be a useful feature for our users.  We note that you have done some
> previous work in this area (erc-sasl.el), and that you already have
> copyright assignments for Emacs on file.
>
> The best link we could find for erc-sasl.el was this:
> https://gitlab.com/psachin/erc-sasl/blob/master/erc-sasl.el
>
> Could you please help us by answering these two questions:
>
> 1. Would you have any objections if we included your code in Emacs?
> 2. Is the code on the link above the code written by you, or has it
> been changed since? Are you the sole contributor to that file?
>
> I've included our recent discussion about this below for your
> information.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas