[emms-help] Please remove tq from emms

[Yoni Rabkin]

Hello Yoni
Since `tq' has been part of Emacs for 24 years, I don't think there is
any good reason to track it in Emms' repository also. ;-)
Please consider removing it.

I don't see an issue with that. But since I don't use emms-mpd (the only
part of Emms which requires tq) someone else might have an issue. I'd
rather forward this email to the list first. Are you OK with me just
forwarding your email verbatim over to the emms-help mailing list?

Of course ;-)

I've posted it on the list. Let's see if anyone has an issue with
removing it.

Additionally you should change the maintainer in the library headers. I
think I have contacted Jorgen at least twice about this issue already,
only to be told that he isn't involved with the project anymore and
hasn't been for years.

Jorgen is one of the authors and therefore copyright holders of Emms. I
can't remove his copyright notices from the headers as per the
requirements of the GPL. Does it say that he is the maintainer of Emms
somewhere? Grepping for "maintain" in the Emms source doesn't seem to
point to Jorgen.

However I wrote a tool (elx.el) which reports the author as maintainer
if the maintainer is not explicitly specified. Guess I shot myself in

That is (by and large) only the case for small projects were the author
is the only person working on it. But even those get abandoned and then
picked up by someone else who maintains the software.
How about a compromise; one which a future maintainer won't need to
update:

;; Contact: emms-***@gnu.org (emms-help mailing list)

[Rasmus]

Post by Yoni Rabkin
How about a compromise; one which a future maintainer won't need to

I don't know Jonas' tool, but presumably we could have something like

;; Maintainer: The EMMS Team <emms-***@gnu.org>

I don't have feel strongly about the wording, tho.

Rasmus

[Yoni Rabkin]

Post by Rasmus

Post by Yoni Rabkin
How about a compromise; one which a future maintainer won't need to

I don't know Jonas' tool, but presumably we could have something like
I don't have feel strongly about the wording, tho.

Jonas:

Neither Rasmus nor I feel very strongly about this, but feel free to
send a patch which adds ";; Maintainer: The EMMS Team
<emms-***@gnu.org>" to the copyright notices in Emms if you want, and
we'll commit it.