Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH 0/8] maintenance patches

[James Youngman]

Thanks.

a) Comments on the patch:

1. Essentially the current version of configure.ac was written by me:
$ git shortlog -- configure.ac configure.in | grep '^[^ ]'
Benedikt Morbach (1):
Bernhard Voelker (2):
Eric Blake (4):
James Youngman (197):
Jim Meyering (1):
Kevin Dalley (12):
Stefano Lattarini (1):


2. I don't think editing the .po file copyright headers is really a
solution here, since they will just be over-written the next time the
relevant translation team provides an update.

You're welcome to apply the patch (despite item 2 because even in the
worst case it's harmless).


b) Sure, go ahead and push patches to the 4.6 branch.    Generally
yes, for low-risk patches.

c) I'd like input from the other committers and from the principal
downstream consumers (e.g. Andreas, Kamil) before making a choice,
since it's the committers who would need to maintain the parallel
branches and the downstream maintainers who (allegedly) benefit.
Let's have a data-based discussion about what works for everyone - in
a separate thread, I'd suggest.

c, part 2) Happy to change the naming scheme, I'm not especially
attached to the current one.

d) We could populate the .x file for files which will be persistently
problematic (such as regexprops.texi).   I think fixing the
translations will require coordination with the Translation Project.
Or hacking the bootstrap script or the update-copyright script.


On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Bernhard Voelker
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01/04/2016 01:37 AM, James Youngman wrote:
>> Thanks for doing this.
>>
>> Sorry about the mid-air collision on the copyright updates.    All the
>> other patches look good to me, please apply!
>
> Thanks for the review - I pushed at the master branch.
>
> 4 questions:
>
> a) There are some parts left from my PATCH 5/8. I've updated
> the patch (see attached). Shall I push it?
>
> b) Do you want me to push to the 4.6 branch, too? (see c)).
>
> c) Will we maintain a 4.6 and a 4.7 line in parallel (although
> we don't have anything big for master)?  I must confess that
> I'm a bit confused with this model. Other projects just leave
> bug fixing up to downstream distributions which can pick commits
> as they like.
> Furthermore, it is common to have a 2-block release version string
> only; by this, they can use gnulib's "build-aux/git-version-gen",
> and have a proper distribution tarball name matching the Git
> revision (e.g. "grep-2.22.15-40ed.tar.xz") at any time instead of
> a static name "...-4.7.0-git".
> Would you consider this a good thing for findutils, too?
>
> d) Another 'make update-copyright' would complain - (how) can we
> fix this, too?
>
>   po/findutils.pot: warning: copyright statement not found
>
> Thanks & have a nice day,
> Berny



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