From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Omitting "Maintainer:" Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 12:44:55 -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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="48406"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 19 18:45:11 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 1hSOvu-000CTn-Mt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 18:45:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50981 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSOvt-00081h-Od for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 12:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSOvn-00081b-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 12:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSOvm-0001tf-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 12:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49678 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hSOvm-0001t2-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 12:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hSOvk-000CHu-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 May 2019 18:45:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:D7LF6s4Vg2cx82MZjcjWSoSvexM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:236753 Archived-At: > useless, and the remaining "Maintainer:" instances are easily (and > more-accurately) determined from the commit logs. If we had removed Well, that depends: in many files, the commit log has loads of cosmetic commits from other people than the maintainer, so it's good to have an official statement about who considers himself in charge. Also, the `Maintainer:` line can specify a mailing-list or a "virtual" email, whereas commits usually specify the personal email of a given individual. This said, I agree that whether the "Maintainer: emacs-devel.." are useful is debatable. Stefan