Re: Wrong entries in AUTHORS?

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Tue, Apr 17 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:48:54 +0200
>> 
>> > +Herbert Euler: changed display.texi
>> 
>> herberteuler@...  is Guanpeng Xu, see copyright.list on fencepost.  I
>> guess the corresponding ChangeLog file should be fixed.
>
> There's no need to change the logs (changing history is something we
> don't want to do, I think); 

It was a very recent change (2007-04-07), so it's more correcting a
recent mistake than changing history, IMHO.

> we can use authors-aliases in authors.el instead.

I thought `authors-aliases' is to match different variants of the same
name, not for pseudonyms.


>> >  Hewlett-Packard: changed emacsclient.c emacsserver.c keyboard.c server.el
>> 
>> Is this one correct?
>
> Why not?

AUTHORS talks about _people_, so I wondered that a company is listed
as a person who "changed" files.  But as Chong pointed out, it seems
to be intended (`authors-fixed-entries').

Bye, Reiner.
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