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bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer lib
From: |
Jonas Bernoulli |
Subject: |
bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers |
Date: |
Sun, 23 May 2021 10:43:40 +0200 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
>> Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 22:25:19 +0200
>>
>> It was already possible to specify multiple authors using the "Author"
>> header, but the same was not possible for maintainers. Because some
>> packages have multiple maintainers, which cannot or don't want to be
>> subsumed under some organisation's name, this adds support for
>> specifying multiple maintainers as well.
>>
>> this also adds support for using "Authors" and "Maintainers" as the
>> names of the header fields instead of just the singular forms.
>
> Why do we need these additions?
OCD and grammar.
> Couldn't we keep using Author and Maintainer?
Of course. But why?
> Having both variants immediately begs the question which is preferable
> and why, arguments about style, and other bikeshedding.
The answer seems obvious to me. Do it like (nearly?) all natural
languages do it: If n=1 then singular, else (n>1) plural.
> Unless there's a good reason for adding new headings, I'd prefer to
> make do with what we already have.
Grammatical mistakes tend to be distracting, especially if you see the
same one over and over again, year after year.
I was expecting this to be noncontroversial. ;)
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/22
- bug#48592: [PATCH 1/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/22
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers,
Jonas Bernoulli <=
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Colin Baxter, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Michael Albinus, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Michael Albinus, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/23
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Michael Albinus, 2021/05/24
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/24
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/24