From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: brandelune@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Omitting "Maintainer:" (was: Robert J. Chasell reference ...)
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 16:47:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1hSSiK-0000t4-Ic@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2807078f-19a8-4648-3c65-31772934171c@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 19 May 2019 09:32:43 -0700)
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> For example, all 327 instances of
> "Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org" in the source code are useless,
Isn't that simply restating the default?
If so, they are indeed redundant, but that is not a new thing.
and the
> remaining "Maintainer:" instances are easily (and more-accurately) determined
> from the commit logs.
Maintainer tags, when not redundant, are useful for people for whom
looking at the repo is inconvenient in some way.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-19 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-18 12:42 Robert J. Chassel reference in Intro to Emacs Lisp Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-05-18 13:15 ` Richard Copley
2019-05-18 14:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-05-18 14:31 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-05-18 18:08 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-18 21:41 ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-19 1:55 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-05-19 16:32 ` Omitting "Maintainer:" (was: Robert J. Chasell reference ...) Paul Eggert
2019-05-19 16:44 ` Omitting "Maintainer:" Stefan Monnier
2019-05-19 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-19 19:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-05-20 4:38 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-19 20:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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