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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 41009@debbugs.gnu.org, mrsebastianurban@gmail.com
Subject: bug#41009: Add release date to the title page of Emacs manual (PDF)
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:49:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jVndy-0005Tj-H2@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4uy2q8ly7b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 03 May 2020 13:34:16 -0400)

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > @today is just the date someone runs TeX. It has no significance as to
  > (eg) when content was last updated.

The goal of reproducible builds argues for NOT using @today.

(Please, let's not refer to text that we have worked hard on
as "content".  See https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content.)


-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)







  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-05  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-01 20:19 bug#41009: Add release date to the title page of Emacs manual (PDF) Sebastian Urban
2020-05-02  6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 19:52   ` Sebastian Urban
2020-05-02 20:05   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-03 17:34 ` Glenn Morris
2020-05-03 21:38   ` Sebastian Urban
2020-05-04  3:15     ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-03 22:13   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-05  2:49   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-05-28 15:38 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-05-28 16:12   ` Eli Zaretskii

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