From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: admin/MAINTAINER edits Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:00:50 -0400 Message-ID: <8h9mbbrt9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443686353 14405 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2015 07:59:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 07:59:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 09:59:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhYld-0005kf-El for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:59:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhYlc-0003HL-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2015 03:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46525) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhNYc-0003O5-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:00:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhNYb-0002T8-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:00:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58714) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhNYb-0002T2-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:00:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZhNYZ-0007aj-3E; Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:00:51 -0400 X-Spook: BRLO Bacteria Gang White House top secret Europol Social X-Ran: #G$U}{p3$T^h{2Yo_'kDXAfC4\=#a93{S,XT>{&K@!n(B*NsL[9$KXSbf20AC/ss\""}*, X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190530 Archived-At: 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.)