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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 23:14:42 +0200 |
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>
> Hi Jonas,
>
>> Are you okay with replacing lm-maintainer with lm-maintainers?
>
> Same argument, again. I have no idea, whether there is some code in the
> wild which uses (lm-header "Maintainer"). package.el does, implicitly.
>
> It would fail, if new packages arrive with the "Maintainers" keyword,
> accessed from an older Emacs.
>
> Best regards, Michael.
I see I need to be more verbose.
I made two proposals:
1) Allow writing "Authors" instead of "Author" and "Maintainers" instead
of "Maintainer". Everyone else in this thread thinks we shouldn't do
that and I don't care enough to argue about it.
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).
Jonas
- bug#48592: [PATCH 1/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers, (continued)
- 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, 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 <=
- 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
- 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