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bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer lib
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers |
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Mon, 24 May 2021 10:28:56 +0300 |
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On May 24, 2021 10:04:37 AM GMT+03:00, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
wrote:
> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>
> Hi Jonas,
>
> > 2) Some packages are being maintained by multiple people and those
> > people are not members of some group or organization that could
> be
> > used as a short-hand. All of those people should be listed
> because
> > they all do important work. Emacs has a function whose purpose
> is to
> > return the maintainer. It is called lm-maintainer. It returns
> just
> > one maintainer, "the" maintainer. Even if the package has
> multiple
> > maintainers and they are all listed. I propose that we accept
> the
> > fact that some packages have multiple maintainers, and that we do
> > that by adding a new function named lm-maintainers, which returns
> a
> > list of maintainers. If there is only one maintainer, it returns
> a
> > list of length one. There is already a function called
> lm-authors.
> > Lets do the same for maintainers.
> >
> > I have given up on (1) and would still like to do (2).
>
> Fine by me.
>
> > Jonas
>
> Best regards, Michael.
Fine by me as well, but:
. I see no reason to deprecate lm-maintainer: there's nothing wrong with
wanting to obtain the first name in the list;
. Please describe in the doc string of lm-maintainer what it does when there's
more than one.
Thanks.
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, (continued)
- 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, 2021/05/23
- 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 <=
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Jonas Bernoulli, 2021/05/24
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Christopher Dimech, 2021/05/24
- 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, Michael Albinus, 2021/05/24
- bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/05/24