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: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:23:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmf0j4hy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83czb1jrm3.fsf@gnu.org> <83y1tphwu8.fsf@gnu.org> <83r0zhhuq8.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6523"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Brian Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 09 19:23:40 2022 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 1oha1c-0001T7-3m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:23:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42738 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oha1a-0001Qb-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:23:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51682) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oha10-0000Zq-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36044) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oha0z-0002Ze-RG; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:23:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=LXVGZnvYNJeqFn7Tsq3r3OlDYHKWai1jwb5e8IDxxfY=; b=qCtR2fROtFzy 3HCFLjF9WYcMRUpNc3APjupjEbxlX5K4I66w29wwvMJ0/Huojr2BzfwWfQlCgPvkuzSAw7C7q+GjC 8voooDITiTglll4p3n7m/D+3Da1cSSlBYx4QC4O0mvbfpV1RP/1dOx4vGzSdd15w+aWrZGVd9ApGZ p2LWsRFmKt7xz54SjzI5oybputHLOiYtCNo0WuGIqwER8pY3pkurBHi2fZNJ1QDSsI+YOy4Y+MgFN VYyI0ws9Fz14Z7hAv8hnloQS2iBQ4GT9CxKnrRVsEbRP9KLAEebFy6eZ5eniEusdajbKJqexN5Hno kBxbSg6cLxAZSnw18tGsyg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2776 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oha0z-0002tV-6f; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:23:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Brian on Sun, 9 Oct 2022 16:03:20 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:297287 Archived-At: > From: Brian > Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 16:03:20 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Then what is the purpose of an author field, if attributions are in > those files? It's the original author, the one who wrote the first version. > It creates the impression that writing a single file then > forgetting about it is the most valuable contribution in this project. > I don't see why having a long history should require this, wouldn't it > work if everyone was credited in the same place? It's just how it is in Emacs. It maybe takes some getting used to, that's all. Once you get used to it, you know that people's contributions is more than just writing a file.