From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 49405-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49405: Attribution for printed manual
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:33:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-11ac63f1-681a-403b-a81e-40bd147cfa6f-1625574802277@3c-app-mailcom-bs12> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wnq3fxq6.fsf@gnu.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2021 at 12:11 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: "Glenn Morris" <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: 49405-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> Subject: bug#49405: Attribution for printed manual
>
> > From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> > Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2021 15:58:20 -0400
> >
> > The printed version of the Emacs manual only lists a single author.
> > Ref eg book-spine.texi "by", back.texi "About the Author", etc.
> > The manual is the work of many people (according to the git log, rms has
> > made one commit to it in the past 12 years).
> > So I think it would be nice to at least get an "et al." in
> > book-spine.texi and some mention of the existence of other contributors
> > in back.texi.
>
> Thanks, fixed.
Don't we have history files of what who done what? I wonder if it makes sense
to have a history for each function, rather than per file, with separate version
number.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-06 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-04 19:58 bug#49405: Attribution for printed manual Glenn Morris
2021-07-06 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-06 12:33 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2021-07-06 12:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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