From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: I'm working on getting the pretest out, but... Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 11:31:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83bmlmxafh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8760bu3ak8.fsf@petton.fr> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507192404 4492 195.159.176.226 (5 Oct 2017 08:33:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 08:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 05 10:33:13 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1e01ac-0007m9-V5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:33:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e01ak-00057w-FD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2017 04:33:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e01Zp-000522-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2017 04:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e01ZW-0002PL-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2017 04:32:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e01ZV-0002Of-PW; Thu, 05 Oct 2017 04:31:57 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2667 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e01ZV-0003sy-0x; Thu, 05 Oct 2017 04:31:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <8760bu3ak8.fsf@petton.fr> (message from Nicolas Petton on Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:47:03 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:219114 Archived-At: > From: Nicolas Petton > Cc: eliz@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:47:03 +0200 > > I'm fixing errors in ChangeLog entries one by one (there are more than > 200), which is a bit tedious. Thank you for your efforts. > This problem seems to reoccur for each first pretest of a major > release. Many commit messages have wrong file paths, which is an easy > mistake to make since there's no check being performed (Magit and VC > can help with that though). > > There's already a pre-commit hook that does some checks on ChangeLog > entries, and I was thinking that maybe we could extend it to check for > the existence of file paths referenced in commit messages. That could be a good idea, IMO. > Another problem I'm facing is author names. I get 30 ignored authors > when updating etc/AUTHORS. Some of them are easy to fix given that they > are known contributors. > > To my surprise however, some of these names refer to old commits (1998 > being the oldest). I don't remember having this issue in the past, > which is weird, and I'm wondering what to do with these ChangeLog > entries. Can you show those problematic author names?