From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Omitting "Maintainer:"
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 12:44:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzhnimm7d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2807078f-19a8-4648-3c65-31772934171c@cs.ucla.edu
> useless, and the remaining "Maintainer:" instances are easily (and
> more-accurately) determined from the commit logs. If we had removed
Well, that depends: in many files, the commit log has loads of cosmetic
commits from other people than the maintainer, so it's good to have an
official statement about who considers himself in charge.
Also, the `Maintainer:` line can specify a mailing-list or a "virtual"
email, whereas commits usually specify the personal email of
a given individual.
This said, I agree that whether the "Maintainer: emacs-devel.." are
useful is debatable.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-19 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-18 12:42 Robert J. Chassel reference in Intro to Emacs Lisp Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-05-18 13:15 ` Richard Copley
2019-05-18 14:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-05-18 14:31 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-05-18 18:08 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-18 21:41 ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-19 1:55 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-05-19 16:32 ` Omitting "Maintainer:" (was: Robert J. Chasell reference ...) Paul Eggert
2019-05-19 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-05-19 17:02 ` Omitting "Maintainer:" Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-19 19:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-05-20 4:38 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-19 20:47 ` Omitting "Maintainer:" (was: Robert J. Chasell reference ...) Richard Stallman
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