Jarl> Hi. Jarl> How should I submit patches? just send them xemacs-patches? Hi Jarl, see item 6 in http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/index.html If you want to indicate that the patches might need discussion, just send them to xemacs-beta. Jarl> The patches will be against CVS HEAD, and are only in Jarl> documentation (texi-files). Good. The trunk (no checkout tag) is currently headed for 21.5 and always called beta. If you want to recommend your changes for 21.4, then say so with RECOMMEND 21.4 in subject and body. Basically, only bug fixes are acceptable for 21.4 at this point with Stephen making the final call. Documentation fixes, if applicable to 21.4, should always be welcome. Jarl> How come that there's no author information in xemacs Jarl> texinfo files, I find it sad that the author is excluded. I This isn't universally true for XEmacs: cd c:\Hacking\XEmacs\xemacs-21.5\man\ egrep -ni "^＠author" *.texi NUL Compilation started at Sun Dec 16 22:34:21 2001 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) emodules.texi:84:＠author J. Kean Johnston info.texi:44:＠author Brian Fox standards.texi:63:＠author Richard Stallman standards.texi:64:＠author last updated ＠value{lastupdate} texinfo.texi:92:＠author Robert J.＠: Chassell texinfo.texi:93:＠author Richard M.＠: Stallman xemacs-faq.texi:12:＠author Tony Rossini <rossini＠(a)biostat.washington.edu&gt; xemacs-faq.texi:13:＠author Ben Wing <ben＠(a)xemacs.org&gt; xemacs-faq.texi:14:＠author Chuck Thompson <cthomp＠(a)xemacs.org&gt; xemacs-faq.texi:15:＠author Steve Baur <steve＠(a)xemacs.org&gt; xemacs-faq.texi:16:＠author Andreas Kaempf <andreas＠(a)sccon.com&gt; xemacs-faq.texi:17:＠author Christian Nyb＠o{} <chr＠(a)mediascience.no&gt; xemacs-faq.texi:18:＠author Sandra Wambold <wambold＠(a)xemacs.org&gt; grep finished (14 matches found) at Sun Dec 16 22:34:22 Jarl> know the documentation is written by many authors, but Jarl> wouldn't it be nice to have something like author or Jarl> maintainer for documentation files too? You may want to use the annotate feature under http://cvs.sunsite.dk/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/xemacs/man/?cvsroot=XEmacs_CVS to find out more about contributors to texi files. The checkin database can be queried for commiters as well: http://cvs.xemacs.org/query.cgi e.g. http://cvs.sunsite.dk/query.cgi?repository=&branch=&directory=&am... Hope this helps, Adrian Jarl> Jarl -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

On 17 Dec 2001, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: [] Either way, it seem to be available for developers mostly, which is kind of OK. I hoped that texinfo had some tag for putting authornames to individual chapters and sections as is seen in some compilation books. So users, i.e. readers of the documentation would see it. I guess this kind of author notation based on chapters and sections needs changes in the texinfo-system. But since most Open Source documentation is written by many authors it may be a very needed feature. Example: Stephen J. Turnell is author of the (xemacs)Creating Packages section (maybe even more), right? But where should this be put? Maybe one should add a section about authors. Jarl