From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Omitting "Maintainer:" Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 18:02:34 +0100 Message-ID: <23FF5754-BBD6-4BD1-92F7-8DA81D8EF5C9@gnu.org> References: <1BDA128C-4B61-49D1-93FD-78D25C2C1818@gmail.com> <692E5F9E-E7FE-447F-A198-3FDB595BF816@gmail.com> <2B45EC3F-BF2D-427E-A4C7-5CE216EB4BC8@gmail.com> <07474840-38b1-8f78-c160-41556f7a11f0@cs.ucla.edu> <2807078f-19a8-4648-3c65-31772934171c@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="131699"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 19 19:03:44 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hSPDp-000Y8x-JD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 19:03:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSPDo-0004LS-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 13:03:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSPCt-0004KI-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 13:02:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37726) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSPCt-0002CV-2Q; Sun, 19 May 2019 13:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.12.148.8] (port=38115 helo=[10.208.167.247]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hSPCo-0000VZ-9I; Sun, 19 May 2019 13:02:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236757 Archived-At: On May 19, 2019 5:44:55 PM GMT+01:00, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > useless, and the remaining "Maintainer:" instances are easily (and > > more-accurately) determined from the commit logs=2E If we had removed >=20 > Well, that depends: in many files, the commit log has loads of > cosmetic > commits from other people than the maintainer, so it's good to have an > official statement about who considers himself in charge=2E >=20 > Also, the `Maintainer:` line can specify a mailing-list or a "virtual" > email, whereas commits usually specify the personal email of > a given individual=2E >=20 > This said, I agree that whether the "Maintainer: emacs-devel=2E=2E" are > useful is debatable=2E >=20 >=20 > Stefan FWIW, I use that line to know whom to ping or consult about a given file= =2E