From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28585: 26.0.60; [Emacs manual] Acknowledgements section omits some contributors Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 15:33:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83ing04b7w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r2uvhmis.fsf@moondust.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506774914 9007 195.159.176.226 (30 Sep 2017 12:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 28585@debbugs.gnu.org To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 30 14:35:09 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGz3-0001Zz-HG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 14:35:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39212 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGzA-0003ue-PY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34283) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGz5-0003st-KX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGz0-0004lA-J7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59663) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGz0-0004jl-9J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGyz-0001zl-W8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:35:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:35:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 28585 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 28585-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B28585.15067748557607 (code B ref 28585); Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:35:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 28585) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Sep 2017 12:34:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40111 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGyF-0001yc-A7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42564) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGyD-0001yQ-Mb for 28585@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:34:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGy3-0002kx-Ba for 28585@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:34:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGy3-0002kf-8M; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:34:03 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3222 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dyGy1-0008H3-4E; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 08:34:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r2uvhmis.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:137674 Archived-At: > From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) > Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 16:25:31 -0400 > > This suggestion is about the [@iftex] Acknowlegements Section near > the beginning of the "print" manual, not about the [@ifnottex] > Acknowlegements Section (ack.texi) at the end of the Info manual. > > There are 443 contributors acknowledged in this section. I realise > the section must be hard to keep up to date (and indeed there is a > comment in it about possibly dropping it and IIUC replacing it > with a reference to AUTHORS) but I suggest that anyone who is the > author of more than 100 commits should be included. In the current > log for the emacs-26 branch (which goes back to about 1985) there > are only about 90 such individuals. > > While I realise there are many problems with using commit count as > a measure of contribution, and also that the log is not especially > reliable (especially without some normalization), I don't think it > would be too controversial to say that all of these 90-odd people > should be acknowledged as a contributor. > > The following people all have more than 100 commits but are omitted: > > Ken Brown > Tino Calancha > Artur Malabarba > Mark Oteiza > Nicolas Petton > Noam Postavsky > Philipp Stephani > > I suggest they be added (unless they have deliberately been > omitted because they're included under a different name or have > requested they be omitted or whatever). Thanks. I feel uneasy about removing people from that list, so I just added the ones you pointed out. > (Note: Rather than re-fill the lines, I made the minimum > changes. This makes some lines rather long but some of the existing > lines are longer, and since this section is justified by TeX anyway, > I'm guessing this is not a problem?) Not a problem, correct. Would you like to propose changes to ack.texi as well, to reflect the main contributions of those 7 people?