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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:297285 Archived-At: Then what is the purpose of an author field, if attributions are in those files? 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? On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 3:39 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > 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.