From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master bef1be8: Fixes for "Maintainer:" and related lines Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 10:40:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190520043434.1198.8439@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190520043437.4F9A82068F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="226070"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Paul Eggert To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 20 16:42:03 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 1hSjUI-000wgY-GF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 16:42:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36638 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSjUH-0003qh-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 10:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40524) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSjT5-0003Gi-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2019 10:40:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSjT4-0007Zo-07; Mon, 20 May 2019 10:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hSjT1-00008T-Bu; Mon, 20 May 2019 10:40:43 -0400 X-Spook: Hazardous Meth Lab cryptanalysis Sleet Abbas Firewalls X-Ran: 'hRE*FmgEbj.4J6bUI|pR|\4}e}G6~IQ|l$K02c!x&@]]9R|4>?G};)t<@^h$-!/A'Pko7 X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <20190520043437.4F9A82068F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 20 May 2019 00:34:35 -0400 (EDT)") 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:236798 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > branch: master > commit bef1be873009d6e9f5a097396179f63a565bb6fd [...] > Mostly, this just removes "Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org" lines, > which are not that useful. They are useful. It is long-standing Emacs convention that if there is no Maintainer header, the Author is the maintainer. See elisp node "Conventional Headers for Emacs Libraries". So this change isn't correct, since it implies someone is the maintainer when they are not. > ;; Author: Gerd Moellmann > -;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org etc.