Toward a "modern" Emacs

No one has ever been required to submit paperwork FIRST. You submit a patch, it gets feedback, it may require revisions, if it gets accepted and its more than 15 lines of non-trival changes, then you assign copyright for it to be added to the repo. While that process happens, nothing is stopping you from working on and submitting more patches. Often people get multiple patches accepted and never assign copyright because they are only a few lines. And assigning copyright is pretty much just replying to an email with your name and address. If you work somewhere doing software or something, you send an email to your company. 2 emails.

This may have changed, but at least until recently, if employees at microsoft wanted to submit a patch to any free software at all, it had to be reviewed by their 2nd or 3rd level boss, perhaps a legal team, a much much bigger ordeal. Let's complain about that kind of thing instead.