From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New VC mode -- review request Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:12:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20071003103501.GA4997@thyrsus.com> <20071004022255.GD12134@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191600843 32619 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2007 16:14:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 05 18:14:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IdpoK-0000BY-Ia for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:13:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdpoF-0002CA-78 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IdpoB-00028S-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:13:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Idpo8-00023h-RY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Idpo8-00022c-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Idpo7-0007E3-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IdpnF-00022A-Np; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:12:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <20071004022255.GD12134@thyrsus.com> (esr@thyrsus.com) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80296 Archived-At: > Before installing these changes, please post the change log for them > here, so we can work on them to make them suitable. I haven't the faintest idea how to do this. Your change-log format is good for describing small incremental changes at the granularity of individual functions, but not for major rewrites where abstractions touch many functions at once. It's not that I'm unwilling to try to write something useful, I can't imagine how to within this format. Please list the functions that you have changed. For those that were totally rewritten, just say "totally rewritten". For those that have smaller changes, describe the changes. If explanations of program logic are useful, please put them in comments in the source. (Perhaps you have already done this.)