From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: include list of contributors on GNU Emacs website Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:12:08 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20191028072938.GR9125@protected.rcdrun.com> <1ECDF872-9E1C-4365-A210-C413246D1454@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="150309"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 28 10:12:28 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iP14e-000cy9-HH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:12:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52054 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iP14d-0000wW-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:12:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iP14U-0000uU-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iP14T-0005MD-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:12:18 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:54579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iP14P-0005II-VN; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:12:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.81] ([::ffff:109.165.181.122]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,128bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000077C65.000000005DB6B0EB.000072E6; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:12:11 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1ECDF872-9E1C-4365-A210-C413246D1454@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.170.207.13 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:241544 Archived-At: That sure=2E And that is not the website=2E Emacs is not a product of a company that tries to hide authors=2E Website is not git and not Emacs package with file AUTHORS=2E Website is p= resentation to the world including those people who do not use Emacs=2E Including those who write about Emacs while not using it=2E It is main sou= rce of information about Emacs=2E Crediting people on the website shall be prominent=2E It is not for me=2E I can see contributors in the git=2E On October 28, 2019 8:49:12 AM UTC, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >On October 28, 2019 9:29:38 AM GMT+02:00, Jean Louis >wrote: >> Hello, >>=20 >> GNU Emacs is software authored by quite a number of people=2E >>=20 >> Please include the list of authors and contributors on the GNU Emacs >> website: https://www=2Egnu=2Eorg/s/emacs/ >>=20 >> The link to "Authors" shall be prominent from the first page=2E >>=20 >> Jean > >Thanks for the proposal=2E > >As you mentioned, the list of contributors to Emacs is very long and >changes very frequently=2E For that reason, we include the condensed >list, produced by a script, in the distribution (see etc/AUTHORS) and >also have the Acqnowledgments section in the Emacs user manual, and >update them only when a release is being produced=2E