From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master bef1be8: Fixes for "Maintainer:" and related lines
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 18:19:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ock1eiyvw9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22fdcee1-39b7-fea0-b68c-73de4167a5c5@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 20 May 2019 08:39:34 -0700")
Paul Eggert wrote:
> However, that node doesn't match existing practice as it goes on to
> say, "Some files in Emacs use 'FSF' for the maintainer. This means
> that the original author is no longer responsible for the file, and
> that it is maintained as part of Emacs" despite the fact that no files
> in the Emacs source code use "FSF" for the maintainer (either before
> or after my recent patch).
I changed it to use a real email address in 34dc21d.
It seemed harmless to leave the explanation of FSF, for older files
people might encounter. (Or more likely I forgot to remove it.)
> it's quite common to see comment pairs like the following, which are
> the first five remaining instances of "Maintainer:" lines in Emacs's
> .el files (sorted by file name):
>
> ;; Author: Markus Rost <markus.rost@mathematik.uni-regensburg.de>
> ;; Maintainer: Markus Rost <rost@math.ohio-state.edu>
Harmless duplication that does not contravene the convention.
> All in all I think it'd lessen confusion and simplify maintenance if
> we used "Maintainer:" for contacting current maintainers who aren't
> authors and don't normally read bug reports. Something like the
> attached proposed patch, say?
That's an incompatible change. If I see a file with only an Author
header, I can't tell whether it follows the old convention (author is
the maintainer), or the new one (emacs-devel is the maintainer).
My counter suggestion is to revert bef1be8.
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2019-05-20 14:40 ` master bef1be8: Fixes for "Maintainer:" and related lines Glenn Morris
2019-05-20 15:39 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-22 22:19 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2019-05-25 21:34 ` Paul Eggert
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