From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 871c027: Revert "* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Remove now deleted files." Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:43:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83imbauqfr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20201016135423.25965.37667@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20201016135424.F39F420BDB@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29146"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 17:44:37 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kTRuG-0007TQ-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:44:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42480 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTRuG-0001FW-07 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38624) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTRtK-0000kd-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTRtK-0003Fv-KN; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2391 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kTRtK-0002dS-2g; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:43:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:21:04 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257824 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:21:04 -0700 > > eliz@gnu.org (Eli Zaretskii) writes: > > > branch: master > > commit 871c027080f1b4faf2d6b8cb0546fe7c5c9bb2db > > Author: Eli Zaretskii > > Commit: Eli Zaretskii > > > > Revert "* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Remove now deleted files." > > > > This reverts commit 731a26bb50aabeb2c0512f0e45b3cda76029a590. > > > > We don't support rewriting history! > > People who contributed to Emacs development should have their > > contributions remain acknowledged forever, even if the files > > to which they contributed are deleted at some point. > > If this is the new policy, it would be a good idea to change the > description in ack.texi to reflect it: Done. > Note that there have already been a number of such removals over the > years. You might want to consider reverting these previous removals as > well in the interest of consistency. Feel free to revert them as well.