Re: master 871c027: Revert "* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): Remove now deleted files."

[Stefan Kangas]

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.