From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Omitting "Maintainer:" (was: Robert J. Chasell reference ...) Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 16:47:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1BDA128C-4B61-49D1-93FD-78D25C2C1818@gmail.com> <692E5F9E-E7FE-447F-A198-3FDB595BF816@gmail.com> <2B45EC3F-BF2D-427E-A4C7-5CE216EB4BC8@gmail.com> <07474840-38b1-8f78-c160-41556f7a11f0@cs.ucla.edu> <2807078f-19a8-4648-3c65-31772934171c@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="51385"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: brandelune@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 19 23:39:29 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 (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hSTWi-000DFn-UF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 23:39:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSTWh-0004zr-BB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 17:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSSiL-00032T-Fp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 16:47:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSSiL-0007RJ-DY; Sun, 19 May 2019 16:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hSSiK-0000t4-Ic; Sun, 19 May 2019 16:47:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2807078f-19a8-4648-3c65-31772934171c@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 19 May 2019 09:32:43 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:236767 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)