From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 48592@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 10:28:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E99239DD-112D-4938-A1ED-81E9290568A9@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmxgobne.fsf@gmx.de>
On May 24, 2021 10:04:37 AM GMT+03:00, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>
> Hi Jonas,
>
> > 2) Some packages are being maintained by multiple people and those
> > people are not members of some group or organization that could
> be
> > used as a short-hand. All of those people should be listed
> because
> > they all do important work. Emacs has a function whose purpose
> is to
> > return the maintainer. It is called lm-maintainer. It returns
> just
> > one maintainer, "the" maintainer. Even if the package has
> multiple
> > maintainers and they are all listed. I propose that we accept
> the
> > fact that some packages have multiple maintainers, and that we do
> > that by adding a new function named lm-maintainers, which returns
> a
> > list of maintainers. If there is only one maintainer, it returns
> a
> > list of length one. There is already a function called
> lm-authors.
> > Lets do the same for maintainers.
> >
> > I have given up on (1) and would still like to do (2).
>
> Fine by me.
>
> > Jonas
>
> Best regards, Michael.
Fine by me as well, but:
. I see no reason to deprecate lm-maintainer: there's nothing wrong with wanting to obtain the first name in the list;
. Please describe in the doc string of lm-maintainer what it does when there's more than one.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-24 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-22 20:25 bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-22 20:32 ` bug#48592: [PATCH 1/2] " Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-22 20:32 ` bug#48592: [PATCH 2/2] * lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mnt.el (lm-crack-address): Right-trim name Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-23 6:46 ` bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-23 8:43 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-23 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-23 9:52 ` Colin Baxter
2021-05-23 11:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-23 11:48 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-23 18:21 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-23 18:45 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-23 21:14 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-24 7:04 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-24 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-05-24 8:58 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-05-24 9:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-24 12:16 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-24 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 12:10 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-24 13:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-30 17:59 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-06-30 19:24 ` Michael Albinus
2021-06-30 19:41 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2021-07-01 11:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2024-02-14 1:43 ` J.P.
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