From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about todos.el copyright and author headers
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:52:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhagwp7hd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5a85pwf.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> (Stephen Berman's message of "Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:33:04 +0200")
> For the ChangeLog and the bzr log, is it sufficient to just write
> something like "Update to new version, reimplementing or abandoning
> almost all old code and adding much new code." or should I individually
> list all reimplemented, removed and new functions, etc.?
The ChangeLog should describe how the new code relates to the old one
(i.e. list the functions/vars that were changed/removed). For the new
vars and functions, I'm not sure it's useful to list them all.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-18 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-16 22:53 Question about todos.el copyright and author headers Stephen Berman
2013-06-17 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-17 8:13 ` Stephen Berman
2013-06-17 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-17 22:33 ` Stephen Berman
2013-06-18 0:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-06-20 14:59 ` Stephen Berman
2013-06-20 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
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