From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Maintainer overview Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:17:05 +0530 Message-ID: <817h73qaeu.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311828460 2499 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 04:47:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:47:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 06:47:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmIVQ-0005aZ-Ci for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:47:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51770 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmIVP-0006fa-Vo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56165) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmIVK-0006f4-AM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmIVG-0007QZ-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:47:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f49.google.com ([209.85.210.49]:59654) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmIVG-0007QV-2X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so3300799pzk.8 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:47:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:references:mail-followup-to:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=pKafUCIlLb9WDE4KfA/tQQbTEJ0A1FWbex39k4wLavs=; b=IKlrGCGR/zgfR9tpw60dlwQtsetZWHnEsy0Jou0z85H7Tk0skaYA4zDd2OyL4021r+ DFzsH/Oylx/+da5o6m1obn59cdwbEaffdEqi+umjn40HlykkW3MQyQ+JNb7W9TuTDW7X 3QuylZHFMnUUqH/em/A2xf/YILdBXuZ0uGxKs= Original-Received: by 10.68.1.170 with SMTP id 10mr852498pbn.380.1311828440397; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from JAMBU-NETBOOK ([115.241.26.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l7sm592667pbh.58.2011.07.27.21.47.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:47:19 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:48:16 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.49 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142420 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Emacs has more than a few bits and pieces that some specific people feel > ownership to. However, we don't really seem to have a mechanism for > notifying these people when bugs that affect their packages show up in > the Emacs bug tracker. > > I think it would be very nice if we had such a list of > packages/maintainers -- that was up-to-date. > > Now, some of the .el files themselves do have Maintainer: lines, but you > really have to root around, and know that you're supposed to root > around, to find them. > > What I'd ideally like to see is to be able to say `C package TAB' (in > debbugs-gnu mode, of course) and see what packages a bug report can be > assigned to, and have the maintainer(s) Cc'd on the existence of the bug > report. > > I think the most pleasant way to do this would be to add a slightly more > formal Maintainer: syntax. Grepping though the sources, we find stuff > like: > > vt-control.el:6:;; Maintainer: Rob Riepel > whitespace.el:6:;; Maintainer: Vinicius Jose Latorre > wid-edit.el:6:;; Maintainer: FSF > window.el:6:;; Maintainer: FSF > woman.el:6:;; Maintainer: FSF > x-dnd.el:6:;; Maintainer: FSF > xml.el:6:;; Maintainer: Mark A. Hershberger > calc/calc-aent.el:6:;; Maintainer: Jay Belanger > calc/calcalg2.el:6:;; Maintainer: Jay Belanger > calc/calcalg3.el:6:;; Maintainer: Jay Belanger > calc/calc-alg.el:6:;; Maintainer: Jay Belanger > calc/calc-arith.el:6:;; Maintainer: Jay Belanger > calc/calc-bin.el:6:;; Maintainer: Jay Belanger > > My suggestion would be to change this to > > ;; Package-maintainer: calc:Jay Belanger > > The `C package' command could then go through all the .el files, gather > the package names, and allow TAB-ing over them. > > Alternatively, we could just put a new file into etc that lists all the > packages and their maintainers, which would, of course, be a lot more > efficient. A package's maintainer is well a meta info about the package (package as defined in ELPA sense) - whether built in or not. I wonder whether there is an interface to inspect the meta information about a package file. Jambunathan K. --