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: Wed, 22 May 2019 18:19:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190520043434.1198.8439@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190520043437.4F9A82068F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <22fdcee1-39b7-fea0-b68c-73de4167a5c5@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="6231"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 23 00:20:39 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 1hTZbB-0001S1-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 May 2019 00:20:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52394 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTZbA-0000CV-3G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 18:20:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48041) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTZaT-0000CE-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 18:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46511) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTZaT-0003Kx-7Q; Wed, 22 May 2019 18:19:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hTZaQ-0004kn-TX; Wed, 22 May 2019 18:19:51 -0400 X-Spook: Blowfish Drill ISEC gamma El Paso Extremism government FBI X-Ran: P^&4 (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 20 May 2019 08:39:34 -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:236914 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > However, that node doesn't match existing practice as it goes on to > say, "Some files in Emacs use 'FSF' for the maintainer.=C2=A0 This means > that the original author is no longer responsible for the file, and > that it is maintained as part of Emacs" despite the fact that no files > in the Emacs source code use "FSF" for the maintainer (either before > or after my recent patch). I changed it to use a real email address in 34dc21d. It seemed harmless to leave the explanation of FSF, for older files people might encounter. (Or more likely I forgot to remove it.) > it's quite common to see comment pairs like the following, which are > the first five remaining instances of "Maintainer:" lines in Emacs's > .el files (sorted by file name): > > ;; Author: Markus Rost > ;; Maintainer: Markus Rost Harmless duplication that does not contravene the convention. > All in all I think it'd lessen confusion and simplify maintenance if > we used "Maintainer:" for contacting current maintainers who aren't > authors and don't normally read bug reports. Something like the > attached proposed patch, say? That's an incompatible change. If I see a file with only an Author header, I can't tell whether it follows the old convention (author is the maintainer), or the new one (emacs-devel is the maintainer). My counter suggestion is to revert bef1be8.