From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Torvald Riegel Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha Subject: Re: Update copyright dates not handled by scripts/update-copyrights [committed] Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:03:14 +0100 Message-ID: <1483380194.13143.119.camel@redhat.com> References: <0d577e78-86dc-5c4d-7afc-f4ff6e3a5eb9@redhat.com> <20170101095738.GH16617@vapier> <1483369707.13143.80.camel@redhat.com> <1483371772.13143.93.camel@redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483380207 2078 195.159.176.226 (2 Jan 2017 18:03:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 18:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mike Frysinger , Florian Weimer , libc-alpha@sourceware.org To: Joseph Myers Original-X-From: libc-alpha-return-76541-glibc-alpha=m.gmane.org@sourceware.org Mon Jan 02 19:03:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: glibc-alpha@blaine.gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to :references:content-type:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=F/MSkl3cm06gweyyokSu9w+OJV8ur1ox3l8DEEDeFZv TiuxV5+jbf15JZcoi1vBe6n+5sIcM/sgAr66SCXo+pcCtSrvYzLUZnywU8fduAvG bo7FRnnc+sJchoeil0H5WRHKbGr8g80AupIDsZhd1gsUkAwSA0XBVtyUEZ1TP9mE = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to :references:content-type:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=odSr9CcL5+wRrC/eqpBSAUitb4Q=; b=L+wn7VtUHObym3rQU WTqAKFqSSLjxK9knfR/L9YOqK3QzaGUKEyE9pbpWtqGqTeW4aRDROMQJi5kWDhF3 DbLRe/JAa3PTKNm/CALpPNPLj0iPiVkkv61hPvtVi6QQJRyyOf/yJfIzWPjvWRqI d/Plw7gQnnli5sy0XxvUj4CIXY= Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Original-Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com In-Reply-To: Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha:68896 Archived-At: Received: from server1.sourceware.org ([209.132.180.131] helo=sourceware.org) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cO6x6-00085u-N2 for glibc-alpha@blaine.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:03:21 +0100 Received: (qmail 63120 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2017 18:03:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 63105 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jan 2017 18:03:19 -0000 On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 17:27 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Joseph Myers wrote: > > > * it has public version control, > > > > * where commits are made for each logical change, not batched into a > > commit per release (see bash for an example of such batching) or per day > > or other such batching, > > And, frankly, I think maintain.texi should make these two into > requirements for GNU packages rather than the present "It is very > important to keep backup files of all source files of GNU. You can do this > using a source control system (such as Bazaar, RCS, CVS, Git, Subversion, > @dots{}) if you like.". Agreed. It would also help if the GNU coding standards would be clearer regarding separating requirements from recommendations/opinions/taste. For examples, nuggets such as " C++ is ok too, but please don’t make heavy use of templates." certainly can't be a general requirement (that would apply to libstdc++, for example). > But that's a separate issue from not requiring > ChangeLogs in certain cases. > Agreed.