A few comments on the patches themselves:
- "remove duplicate documentation from the Commentary" sounds fine to me, but maybe we should leave something in its stead. The first part can be replaced with a reference to the `whitespace-style' docstring. The second one... is it really that out of date? The list of variables seems like it can be useful.
- The commit messages don't follow the ChangeLog format, see https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs. , or simply the existing commit messages.html