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29.0.60; etc/AUTHORS listing README.md

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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.60; etc/AUTHORS listing README.md
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:32:14 +0000

When viewing etc/AUTHORS, I see that a number of people have modified a
file "README.md" that is not to be found in emacs.git.  From what I see,
these people have frequently also changed eglot.git, which makes me
think that this is an issue with the import-merge of the Eglot
repository into emacs.git.  This seems like something that authors.el
should be made aware of.


In GNU Emacs 29.0.60 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
 3.24.37, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2023-04-10 built on quetzal
Repository revision: 305246d9726bbe05a65ad3836880138db5c01dfa
Repository branch: emacs-29
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

Configured using:
 'configure --with-pgtk --with-imagemagick --with-native-compilation
 --with-tree-sitter --with-json CC=gcc 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native -pipe'
 LDFLAGS=-flto'

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ
IMAGEMAGICK JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES
NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3
THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM GTK3 ZLIB

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  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_TIME: en_US.UTF-8
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  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
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Major mode: NEWS

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/home/philip/.config/emacs/site-lisp/package-lint/package-lint hides /home/philip/.config/emacs/elpa/package-lint/package-lint
/home/philip/.config/emacs/site-lisp/package-lint/package-lint-flymake hides /home/philip/.config/emacs/elpa/package-lint/package-lint-flymake
/home/philip/.config/emacs/elpa/transient-0.3.7/transient hides /home/philip/Source/emacs/lisp/transient
/home/philip/.config/emacs/elpa/xref-1.6.3/xref hides /home/philip/Source/emacs/lisp/progmodes/xref
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Message #8 received at 62813 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 62813 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62813: 29.0.60; etc/AUTHORS listing README.md
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:45:09 +0300

tags 62813 notabug
thanks

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:32:14 +0000
> 
> When viewing etc/AUTHORS, I see that a number of people have modified a
> file "README.md" that is not to be found in emacs.git.  From what I see,
> these people have frequently also changed eglot.git, which makes me
> think that this is an issue with the import-merge of the Eglot
> repository into emacs.git.  This seems like something that authors.el
> should be made aware of.

First, attributions in AUTHORS don't necessarily mention files that
are physically present in the repository.  E.g., we don't want to
ignore contributions to files that we at some point decided to remove
from Emacs.

In this case, it was my decision to tweak authors.el's databases so
that contributions to files in merged packages, such as Eglot and
use-package, will be reflected in AUTHORS even though the files to
which they contributed were eventually deleted when the package was
merged.  Where the stuff in those deleted files was moved to other
files, which do exist, I tried to redirect the attributions to the
existing files.  But where that was impossible or impractical, I saw
no problem in having removed files referenced by AUTHORS.

Eglot's README.md was deleted some time after Eglot was merged with
Emacs, or maybe even before that, but the text in it is now largely in
the Eglot manual, in some form or another.  So having these
attributions in AUTHORS makes sense to me.

This is not a bug.

Message #15 received at 62813-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 62813-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Subject: Re: bug#62813: 29.0.60; etc/AUTHORS listing README.md
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 03:36:26 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> tags 62813 notabug
> thanks
>
>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:32:14 +0000
>>
>> When viewing etc/AUTHORS, I see that a number of people have modified a
>> file "README.md" that is not to be found in emacs.git.  From what I see,
>> these people have frequently also changed eglot.git, which makes me
>> think that this is an issue with the import-merge of the Eglot
>> repository into emacs.git.  This seems like something that authors.el
>> should be made aware of.
>
> First, attributions in AUTHORS don't necessarily mention files that
> are physically present in the repository.  E.g., we don't want to
> ignore contributions to files that we at some point decided to remove
> from Emacs.
>
> In this case, it was my decision to tweak authors.el's databases so
> that contributions to files in merged packages, such as Eglot and
> use-package, will be reflected in AUTHORS even though the files to
> which they contributed were eventually deleted when the package was
> merged.  Where the stuff in those deleted files was moved to other
> files, which do exist, I tried to redirect the attributions to the
> existing files.  But where that was impossible or impractical, I saw
> no problem in having removed files referenced by AUTHORS.
>
> Eglot's README.md was deleted some time after Eglot was merged with
> Emacs, or maybe even before that, but the text in it is now largely in
> the Eglot manual, in some form or another.  So having these
> attributions in AUTHORS makes sense to me.
>
> This is not a bug.

Agreed.  I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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