From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More metaproblem Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:01:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83sigv4ttc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141203142859.24393.98673@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20141203192721.GE12748@thyrsus.com> <547F6774.50700@cs.ucla.edu> <838uio5vjw.fsf@gnu.org> <20141203211447.GB15111@thyrsus.com> <871toge5zw.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <83388v6hsq.fsf@gnu.org> <85egsfpytd.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417687336 18521 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2014 10:02:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 10:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 04 11:02:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XwTEe-0001nU-IX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:02:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwTEe-0002hW-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:02:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52185) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwTEN-0002gh-4w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwTEG-0001d1-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:01:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:37698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwTEG-0001cU-Nb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:01:44 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG100300YGM6Q00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:01:37 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG10030DYIP1Q40@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:01:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <85egsfpytd.fsf@stephe-leake.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:178812 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 03:08:14 -0600 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > >> >For Emacs to attract new developers, its code and the culture need to > >> >be discoverable. As part of this, practice rules need to be *clear*, > >> >*documented*, and *minimal*. Right now they fail all three tests. > >> > > See admin/notes/repo and admin/notes/commits. What else is missing? > > That does not describe the changelog entry/commit message format. There > is admin/notes/changelog, which contains a reference to the Gnu coding > standards and some hints. Maybe we should simply move all that into etc/CONTRIBUTE, and leave in admin/notes only stuff that is minor/obscure etc.