Hi,
In the same region as ChangeLogs and READMEs we have the
NEWS-files. The NEWS files, NEWS, ONEWS and OONEWS, list the new
features at a higher lever than the ChangeLogs. Definitely more edited
files and prepared to be readable.
I can find no real counterpart for the NEWS-files in Emacs.
If we would go for finding all contributions we have the contributors
from the "hg log" for the recent time but most contributions are from
the cvs days of course. (So the question whether the cvs archive can
be consulted pops up again.)
On the other hand the old NEWS-files might be more of historical
interest and might not need to be distributed as part of XEmacs?
Comments, ideas?
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Mats Lidell writes:
> >>>>> Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>
> Stephen> Do this. pdump should work fine everywhere, but why not use
> Stephen> the buildbot to test?
>
> I have changed so that -with-pdump is used on all configurations now.
Cool! Thanks! For this change, and for the buildbot.
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Štěp
án
Němec writes:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ChangeLog entries synched from GNU Emacs are the property of the FSF.
> > Other ChangeLog entries are usually the property of the author of the
> > change.
> >
> > <GPLV3 or later permission text>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > This is one case where an assignment policy would make things a lot
> > more pleasant!
>
> I don't see how? ISTM it's just the same as with any other kind of
> change or contribution.
It's a one-off, not a continuing advantage. Doing ChangeLogs right
would involve mentioning the copyrights of all contributors, which
would make them about 10% longer, I'd guess. Nor is there any usable
evidence in the VCS log about ChangeLogs for non-committer
contributors, as it's very often the case that the committer wrote the
ChangeLog. So getting all the relevant copyright information would be
a real drag for ChangeLogs, more so than the change itself (where the
ChangeLog normally identifies the copyrightholder of the change).
With the assignment policy, there's only one to mention, and no
committer vs. contributor ambiguity is moot.
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Hi,
So we have a plan for the ChangeLogs. Next I turn to the READMEs. They
occur in the directory hierarchy in different folders. These are not
as homogeneous as the ChangeLog in style but many describe what is in
the directory. Like here we have lisp, here we have sources etc. There
is no copyright nor license in these READMEs.
Emacs has copyright to FSF and license as normal but not in all
READMEs.
I guess "hg log" and maybe even going back to cvs (is there a copy of
that repo somewhere?) could produce a list of committers. IMO that
seems to over do it for this folder descriptive type of README.
Comments, ideas?
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Hi,
The buildbot it unfortunately offline. It is very likely a cable
problem. (And if I'm right that is bad news. Last time that happened it
took the operator a month to fix it.) I will contact the operator
tomorrow. I hope I will know more after that.
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Hi,
In the set of files that remains to be handled I turn to the
ChangeLogs. (Hoping that they can be handled in the same way so that
we don't really have to deal with them one by one from directory to
directory.)
In the current trunk these files are without copyright and
license. What do we need to do in order to go GPLv3 or later?
Thoughts, comments, ideas?
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Hi, XEmacs!
XEmacs 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" a50bd2ecce55 [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux) of
Wed Mar 24 2010 on acm
1. XEmacs -q --no-site-file, then open a new AWK Mode file with C-x C-f
~/foo.awk.
2. Type this:
# Comment
/regexp/ {
}
3. Save the buffer with C-x C-s, kill the buffer with C-x C-k.
4. Reload the buffer with C-x C-f ~/foo.awk
5. Move point to the opening regexp quote ("/").
6. Note that C-M-f and C-M-b correctly move over the entire quoted
regexp.
7. With point on the /regexp/ line, type <tab>, as though to indent
the line.
8. Move point to the opening regexp quote "/").
9. C-M-f and C-M-b now move wrongly to the beginning and end of the word
"regexp", apparently no longer recognising the "/"s as string
delimiters.
#########################################################################
Notes:
(i) the delimiters "/" are marked as string quotes by having extents on
them with syntax-table property (7).
(ii) I've checked that these extents are not changed by the <tab>.
Would somebody please look at this bug.
Thanks in advance!
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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