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Re: master 871c027: Revert "* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Remo
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Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
Re: master 871c027: Revert "* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Remove now deleted files." |
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Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:21:04 -0700 |
eliz@gnu.org (Eli Zaretskii) writes:
> branch: master
> commit 871c027080f1b4faf2d6b8cb0546fe7c5c9bb2db
> Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> Revert "* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Remove now deleted files."
>
> This reverts commit 731a26bb50aabeb2c0512f0e45b3cda76029a590.
>
> We don't support rewriting history!
> People who contributed to Emacs development should have their
> contributions remain acknowledged forever, even if the files
> to which they contributed are deleted at some point.
If this is the new policy, it would be a good idea to change the
description in ack.texi to reflect it:
This list is intended to mention every contributor of a major package or
feature we currently distribute; [...]
@c Remove things that are no longer distributed.
Note that there have already been a number of such removals over the
years. You might want to consider reverting these previous removals as
well in the interest of consistency.
- Re: master 871c027: Revert "* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Remove now deleted files.",
Stefan Kangas <=