Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes

[Brian]

Then what is the purpose of an author field, if attributions are in
those files?  It creates the impression that writing a single file then
forgetting about it is the most valuable contribution in this project.
I don't see why having a long history should require this, wouldn't it
work if everyone was credited in the same place?

On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 3:39 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Not only the original author is credited.  There's also "maintainer",
> and then there's the etc/AUTHORS file and the "Acknowledgements" node
> of the Emacs manual.
>
> In a large project that runs for so many years, it is not practical to
> have all the contributors spelled in the files to which they
> contributed, so we do it differently.