bug#14204: [ELPA] Update coffe-mode.el to latest version

[Reuben Thomas]

I just ran the following command on the current version of coffee-mode.el at https://github.com/defunkt/coffee-mode:

git blame coffee-mode.el --porcelain | grep  "^author "|sort|uniq -c

This shows the following authors with more than 15 lines of code:

Chris Wanstrath

Danny McClanahan

Denis Washington

Justine Tunney

Petri Lehtinen

Reuben Thomas (me!)

Syohei Yoshida

Tim McGilchrist

Of course, this is not a rigorous assessment, as it could include commits where the committer has simply reformatted code. I then skimmed through the entire history and did not find any major reformatting commits, so it seems that the above list is indeed correct.

At this stage, given that coffee-mode is unlikely to be that popular, I think it's probably a waste of effort to try to get signatures from any authors who haven't yet signed; so if there are authors who haven't, then NonGNU ELPA is the right place to put it.

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 20:34, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Hi Philip,
>
> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
>> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>>
>>> On 10.09.2020 17:33, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>>>> I have also asked the current maintainer to sign the papers here:
>>>>
>>>>      https://github.com/defunkt/coffee-mode/issues/372
>>>
>>> He replied that he already signed, and indeed, that's the case.
>>
>> That leaves us with the task of chasing down the other contributors.
>
> I guess this should also rather be going to NonGNU ELPA at this point?
> I can see you posted in the above issue, so I assume you are looking
> into it?  Thanks in advance.

I haven't looked further into the issue since, nor have I checked how
many people have significant contributions without having signed the
copyright papers.

>From a quick check, it seems that most major contributions were made
before 2014, which is the current state in GNU ELPA.  So it might be
possible to check if these few have either signed or are willing to sign
the papers, before we move the package to NonGNU ELPA.

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        Philip Kaludercic

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