From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: admin/MAINTAINER edits
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:00:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8h9mbbrt9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
What's going on with all these pointless (IMO) admin/MAINTAINER edits?
Section 3 "the list of areas for which no maintainer has been found so far"
has recently been filled out with a huge dump of files. Eg
lisp/calendar/*
lisp/gnus/*
lisp/progmodes/f90.el
etc etc
These things are not unmaintained.
Nor are the vast majority of items in that section.
IMO MAINTAINERS, which was neglected for years, isn't very important.
I was hoping to just see it go away, not get revived. It just sits
around duplicating information, getting outdated, and not being used.
If someone is listed in an individual file's header, listing them again
in this file is just pointless duplication.
(And the presumption is that the Author is the Maintainer if none is
explicitly listed.)
IMO the MAINTAINERS files was only every really "useful" for abstract
things like
Jason Rumney
W32
(BTW, that entry is fairly obviously no longer appropriate, as are some
others.)
next reply other threads:[~2015-09-30 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-30 20:00 Glenn Morris [this message]
2015-10-01 9:01 ` admin/MAINTAINER edits Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 14:47 ` Paul Eggert
2015-10-01 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 17:33 ` Glenn Morris
2015-10-01 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 19:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-01 14:43 ` Paul Eggert
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