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 18:39:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83r0zhhuq8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83czb1jrm3.fsf@gnu.org> <83y1tphwu8.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33133"; 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 17:40:33 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 1ohYPo-0008Ps-Ew for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 17:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41668 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohYPn-00033R-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 11:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohYOg-0001aR-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 11:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49044) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohYOg-0003dL-Iz; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 11:39:22 -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=QK7VIwLmcehvNUjpoNsQpKz2D0DBwXdIa+S8AW1+7eM=; b=Rnc3BCrukDXu oLEA7DKSYj1m0Qozy1UG4J4BGWgxIwrHHGGuzRFVX7wHaM7dujDT7v19MqcpZh8Ur/WTNoTN0LgpM Xt1SKx2ao2dIy4SLjzTjgvPKSYPUOjvf+X5HTAJxc+IedXT42jF/g9SpscOM4FI+mwQppnViMm9jc Sn6K9mW+aom/uReGGziM8XNCC4Z9R4eP2M3EJH6vad16VvGmfZzRuoNARXTObkVKyYP/jTu3KR7eb h435zY1ow2+TL/7yuedKU5ENnJqcoPNRZwOda7s8p8V2rRkXHan/+LuBoDA3xQhutCit6gsc0FEeL EN6pwASv6st05zGybSN7tg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4339 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 1ohYOf-0003Nn-Vr; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 11:39:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Brian on Sun, 9 Oct 2022 15:20:41 +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:297284 Archived-At: > From: Brian > Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 15:20:41 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I do not understand why only one person is credited if it is a > collective effort. Why does Emacs files have author fields, what > Is their significance, history? I have only seen Emacs do this > and couldn't find anything on it in CONTRIBUTING file, so the > process feels somewhat opaque. Not only the original author is credited. There's also "maintainer", and then there's the etc/AUTHORS file and the "Acknowledgements" node of the Emacs manual. In a large project that runs for so many years, it is not practical to have all the contributors spelled in the files to which they contributed, so we do it differently.