2018-01-16 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
* standards.texi: typos, copyright year update.
2018-01-15 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Be more careful about the word "explanation".
* standards.texi (Change Log Concepts, Style of Change Logs):
Encourage longer overall explanations of the change. Clarify
other text.
2017-10-16 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi Change http: to https:
(License Notices for Other Files): Mention that public domain is
ok for small auxiliary text files.
2017-09-19 John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi Update the FSF's out of band status url
2016-07-25 Brandon Invergo <brandon@invergo.net>
* standards.texi (Program Behavior, Writing C): Remove
K&R-specific C recommendations.
2016-07-21 Brandon Invergo <brandon@invergo.net>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Papers): Add India to the list of
countries that accepts assignments by email.
2016-07-18 Brandon Invergo <brandon@invergo.net>
* maintain.texi (Standard Mailing Lists): Use full mailing-list
email addresses
(Binary Distribution): Fix word transposition typo
2015-04-23 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (@copying),
* maintain.texi (@copying): make boilerplate consistent with fdl.
2015-02-03 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi: insert missing ). Noted by Mathieu Lirzin,
03 Feb 2015 18:53:44.
2014-12-30 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi: use '...' in examples.
2014-12-24 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi: fix broken url to Python manual.
* maintain.texi: fix broken url to CVS manual.
2014-12-18 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Invoking gendocs.sh): now maintained in Gnulib.
2014-12-10 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Graphical Interfaces): accept GNUstep
along with GTK+.
2014-05-13 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Ethical and Philosophical Consideration):
no Google Groups.
2014-05-13 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi, standards.texi: use http://www.gnu.org
since that is what we've always used to date.
2014-05-13 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi,
* standards.texi (User Interfaces): Explain better about avoiding
device-dependence, i.e.,
http://www.gnu.org/accessibility/accessibility.html.
* standards.texi (Which Languages to Use): Add Lisp.
2014-03-31 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (User Interfaces): give an exception for binary
output (such as a compression program) to a terminal.
2014-03-19 Ineiev <ineiev@gnu.org> (tiny change)
* standards.texi (Command-Line Interfaces): use @indicateurl
for the example.org url. From Ineiev (tiny change).
2014-03-19 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Hosting for Web Pages): correct name to
``web pages repository'' for the Savannah feature.
2014-03-19 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (GNU and Linux): Minor cleanup.
(Free Software and Open Source): Minor cleanup.
(Crediting Authors, Binary Distribution): New sections.
2013-12-17 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* gnu-oids.texi (.9): for Rush, request from Sergey.
* standards.texi (OID Allocations): Sergey registered the OID
for GNU.
2013-12-05 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* gnu-oids.texi (.15): for ellipticCurve, request from Werner Koch.
Ed25519 curve, similar but in details different from Curve25519
(1.3.6.1.4.1.3029.1.5.1).
2013-10-10 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Formatting): mention that source
lines should ideally be kept to <80 chars. Suggestion from
LE GARREC Vincent, 6 Oct 2013 23:47:02.
2013-10-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (FTP Upload Directive File): reword to avoid
underfull hbox.
2013-10-08 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Papers): make clear that GNU packages
need not be FSF-copyrighted.
2013-09-13 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Directory Variables): new variable runstatedir.
* standards.texi: corresponding option --runstatedir.
Suggestion from bug-standards mail, 05 Sep 2013 13:47:37 (ff.).
* maintain.texi (Getting Help): identi.ca/group/fsfstatus
is gone; now pumprock.net/fsfstatus.
2013-08-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Papers): GPG allowed for US residents,
per Donald Robertson.
2013-07-19 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Registration): more explicit
gpg instructions.
2013-05-07 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Creating Mailing Lists): sufficient to mention
new-mailing-list@ (= savannah), since sv can help with the
(very) occasional aliases request too; FSF sysadmins requested
disabling the special alias-file@ address.
2013-04-27 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Procedure): explicitly mention
that the hostname ftp-upload.gnu.org is not used with the gnupload
script.
(Announcements): Mention ::noplanet:: keyword.
* standards.texi (--version) <Artistic>: new url, perlfoundation.org
is gone.
2013-02-13 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (GNU Accounts and Resources): mention
http://www.fsf.org/about/systems/sending-mail-via-fencepost.
2013-01-10 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (FTP Upload Directive File): upload
FOO.directive.asc, not FOO.directive.
2013-01-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Procedure, FTP Upload Directive
File - v1.2): split into subsections.
(Announcements): mention announce-gen.
Ideas from Ineiev.
2013-01-01 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi: do not use @sc, for consistency
with other manuals.
2013-01-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
and Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Standard C, Calling System Functions):
update references to C and POSIX standards.
2013-01-01 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Releases): no "the the" (report from Stefano
Lattarini).
* maintain.texi (External Libraries): typos/grammar.
2012-11-15 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Papers): can now accept emailed
scans from German residents, as well as US. Per
Donald Robertson, 14 Nov 2012 10:40:04.
2012-10-27 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Releases): make the items that should be in the
README into a list, since there are quite a few of them.
* maintain.texi (Manuals on Web Pages): no point in PostScript
output specifically these days, given PDF.
2012-08-24 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Invoking gendocs.sh): don't use @acronym
for "HTML", for consistency.
2012-07-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* make-stds.texi (Directory Variables): configure.ac preferred
to configure.in.
bug-standards, 09 Jul 2012 01:25:12.
2012-06-30 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
and Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Change Log Concepts): mention possibility
of a one-line description describing the overall purpose;
the full description of changes to media files and others without
a comment syntax can go in the ChangeLog.
bug-standards, 04 Jun 2012 11:52:37.
2012-06-15 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Registration): must confirm
some of the answers to gpg --gen-key, not just accept.
2012-06-01 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
and Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
Clarify ChangeLog terminology.
* standards.texi (Change Log Concepts): more clearly distinguish
an individual change from the batch of changes typically
comprising a change log entry. Mention the term "change set".
(Style of Change Logs): likewise.
(Conditional Changes): add filename to last example.
bug-standards, 30 May 2012 11:54:09.
2012-05-26 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Change Log Concepts): media files are
another example of non-software files worth mentioning.
Suggestion from Thien-Thi Nguyen, 25 May 2012 09:29:31.
2012-05-20 Ward Vandewege <sysadmin@fsf.org>
* maintain.texi (FTP Upload Directive File - v1.2): new node.
(FTP Upload Directive File - v1.1): access to archived files
is simply via email to sysadmin.
(FTP Upload Directive File - v1.0): no longer supported.
2012-05-14 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (GNU and Linux): url fixes from Ineiev.
2012-05-13 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Interviews and Speeches): new node.
(External Libraries): discuss licensing; avoid goffice.
2012-04-14 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Explain that employer can assign copyright.
* maintain.texi (Copying from Other Packages): Split out two subnodes.
(Non-FSF-Copyrighted Package, FSF-Copyrighted Package): New subnodes.
2012-04-07 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Formatting): mention struct+enum types
per rms.
2012-04-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Comments): Gender neutralize.
* maintain.texi (Copyright Papers): five business days for
the FSF to answer initially. Information from johns.
2012-03-21 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Distribution on ftp.gnu.org): clarify that
using ftp.gnu.org is strongly recommended, though not
absolutely required.
2012-03-11 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Announcements): missed @indicateurl for
generic ftpmirror and mail examples.
2012-03-10 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Formatting): spurious "that".
Report from Jeremy Compostella, RT #725785.
2012-02-11 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi,
* standards.texi: typos.
2012-01-12 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (GNU Accounts and Resources): rename from
Getting a GNU Account. Mention Hydra, platform-testers, more.
2012-01-08 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Errors): avoid -'s in metavariable names,
too easily confused with the literal -'s in the formats.
Suggestion from Per Bothner.
2011-12-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* standards.texi (Quote Characters): change to recommending
undirected quotes, '...' or "...".
2011-12-23 Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Standard C and Pre-Standard C, System Functions):
make comments about C99 consistent, by suggesting its use where
available, but not making it a requirement.
2011-12-23 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices for Documentation): mention
writing to maintainers about FSF publications on paper.
2011-12-22 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
* standards.texi (Conditional Changes): more examples
in more languages.
2011-12-10 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Quote Characters): UTF-8 is not compatible
with Latin 1.
2011-12-05 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Semantics, Errors, Character Set): more strongly
recommend supporting/using UTF-8 if anything non-ASCII is done.
Suggestion from Joseph Myers.
2011-12-02 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Standard Mailing Lists): recommend describing
mailing lists in README and/or AUTHORS. Suggestion from Werner Koch.
2011-10-12 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Papers): new option for US contributors.
2011-09-26 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Replying to Mail): mention the email tracker
at http://bugs.gnu.org, and the web trackers savannah supports.
2011-09-25 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Procedure): mention
ftp-upload-report, set up by sysadmin.
* standards.texi: per rms, consistently use punctuation outside
quotes, except when a whole sentence is being quoted.
2011-08-14 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Old Versions): Discourage private GNU packages on
Savannah. Other small wording changes.
2011-06-30 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Free Software and Open Source): Open Source
is not a movement; reword.
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Registration): include sv
username in ftp-upload mail.
2011-05-10 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Semantics): remove the (new) sentence about libiconv
since it's insufficient. Report from Bruno Haible,
10 May 2011 13:25:06.
2011-05-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Old Versions): VC node name changed in Emacs manual,
update xref.
(Getting Help): be more encouraging about using mentors;
mention sysadmin.
* standards.texi (Contributions): explicit xref to relevant
section in maintainers guide.
(Semantics): mention strerror.
(Memory Usage): use the more-general "memory analysis" instead
of specifically "memory leak", since there are plenty of
other false-positive memory diagnostics besides leaks.
2011-03-28 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Top): fix @top to be the real title, not the
spurious "Version".
(Semantics): mkstemps is better to take from Gnulib these days,
not libiberty.
(CPU Portability): <stdarg.h> is required these days, no need to
explicitly mention using it.
(System Functions): rewrite to describe current problems and Gnulib.
These changes suggested by Reuben Thomas.
* work.m/GNUmakefile,
* work.s/GNUmakefile: simplify HTML update methods.
2011-01-28 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Semantics): more info about robust temporary
file creation. Suggestion from Michael Antosha.
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Registration): defaults to gpg
--gen-key are ok.
2011-01-14 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi: consistently use {package} rather than
{program}; other small source updates.
* maintain.texi (License Notices for Code): include instructions
from gpl-howto.html for constructing the LGPL notice.
* maintain.texi (Licensing of GNU Packages): new node,
with wording for dual-license LGPLv2+|GPLv3+. (Approved by rms
and lawyers.)
2010-12-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Old Versions): a bit more on Savannah.
2010-12-02 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi: a bit more about useful things for --help.
2010-11-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Standard Targets): further explication about
being helpless without debugging symbols.
2010-11-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* doc/make-stds.texi (Standard Targets): Additional information
about stripping executables.
Suggested by Mark T. Eriksen <halfcountplus at intergate dot com>.
2010-11-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Donations): mention FSF, software
maintenance fee possibilities.
2010-11-15 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Donations): do not explicitly mention paypal,
and do disrecommend Google's payment service.
2010-11-12 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Donations): new node, text written mostly by rms.
2010-10-27 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Notices): ranges are now allowed,
as long as information is not lost. Approved by rms and SFLC.
2010-10-25 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Hosting): Use short /gethelp url for consistency
with standards.texi. (/help/gethelp.html still works, however.)
Report from Eric Blake, webmasters #628890.
2010-10-08 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Getting Help): update information about the
advisory committee.
2010-09-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* standards.texi (Memory Usage): mention no need to placate valgrind.
(Syntactic Conventions): mention no need to placate lint/clang/etc.
2010-08-24 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Standard Targets): parenthetical instead of
footnote, for ease of reading.
2010-08-24 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Dynamic Plug-In Interfaces): new node.
2010-07-02 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* gnu-oids.texi (.8): for GNU Dico, request from Sergey Poznyakoff.
2010-06-21 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (@gdgnuorgtext{}): needs empty braces following
for reliable expansion.
(CVS Keywords in Web Pages): refer to CVS manual by url, since
there is no other reliable way any more.
* standards.texi (References): missing word. Report from
Stefan Kangas, 21 Jun 2010 09:44:34.
2010-06-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Directory Variables): don't use @raggedright yet,
that makeinfo isn't released. From Nick Clifton,
binutils@sourceware.org, Jun 08, 2010 at 02:20:36PM.
2010-05-28 Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Web Pages): missed / in boilerplate url.
2010-05-18 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi: make text related to releases agnostic about FTP
or HTTP.
2010-05-17 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* gnu-oids.texi (.6): typo in assignment to Shishi.
(.7): assign to GNU Radio for Eric Blossom.
2010-05-13 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Hosting): primary ftp distribution point should
be an unrestricted site.
2010-05-01 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* work.s/GNUmakefile: fix up HTML refs to more cases of more
manuals. Report from Mateusz Poszwa, webmasters ticket #568736.
* work.m/GNUmakefile: keep consistent.
* maintain.texi: a couple of missing @url's.
* make-stds.texi: avoid bad breaks.
2010-04-29 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Preface, Announcements): text cleanups.
(Web Pages): mention the boilerplate template.
(Mail): split into:
(Standard Mailing Lists,
Creating Mailing Lists,
Replying to Mail): new sections.
2010-04-25 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Getting Help): text cleanups.
2010-04-18 Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Getting a GNU account): move info from preface
to its own section.
2010-04-14 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Getting Help): new chapter for mentors@gnu.org
and gnu-advisory@gnu.org.
Throughout, fix underfull/overfull lines.
2010-04-12 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Makefile Basics): include printf.
Suggestion from Eric Blake.
* standards.texi (--version) <RBSD>: use @* to avoid
underfull hbox.
2010-03-27 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Graphical Interfaces): Recommend D-Bus
rather than CORBA, for GNOME and use from other programs in general.
Suggestion from Andy Wingo.
2010-03-25 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (--version): No more GPL/Guile; the Guile exception
was only used in old releases (that didn't use this --version output).
These days, Guile is under the LGPL, no special exceptions.
Suggestion from Andy Wingo.
2010-03-23 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Preface),
* maintain.texi (Preface): Mention Savannah project, and use
the same wording.
Suggestion from Brian Gough, 23 Mar 2010 12:10:58.
2010-03-11 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Graphical Interfaces, --version): use
"X Window System" consistently.
Report from Jon Masters, 08 Mar 2010 20:40:33.
2010-02-18 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Standard Targets) <do-install-info>: Avoid
absolute, DESTDIR-related, target name, which fails if the target
directory happens to contain spaces. Hence avoid $@, which was
redundantly specified anyway. Finally, only the install-info run
is POST_INSTALL, the INSTALL_DATA part is NORMAL_INSTALL.
Report from Aubrey Jaffer, follow-up from Ralf Wildenhues,
11 Feb 2010 07:29:15.
(Directory Variables): State that install dirs and their parents
should be created before being used.
(DESTDIR): Capitalize section name in the usual way.
(Standard Targets) <installdirs>: mkinstalldirs is
better found in Gnulib.
2010-02-18 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> (tiny change)
Insert space before open-paren in C code fragments.
* doc/standards.texi
(Conditional Compilation): Say "if (...)", not "if( ...)".
(Semantics): Say "fd = open (...)", not "fd = open(...)".
2010-02-18 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> (tiny change)
* doc/standards.texi (Change Log Concepts):
Move the "however, one line to describe change ok" from its
own paragraph (following another "however..." sentence, thus
losing the antecedent) into the paragraph where "need to
describe full purpose of changes" is first discouraged.
Also, expand the prepositional noun phrase to cover a
single change.
2010-02-18 Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> (tiny change)
* doc/standards.texi (Change Log Concepts): Use three hyphens
for "emdash".
2010-01-27 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Notices): Normalize whitespace;
clarify "Copyright" being in English and C-in-a-circle or (C) not
being a requirement.
2010-01-24 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* doc/make-stds.texi (Makefile Basics): corrected to sed -f sedscript,
not sed -e.
2010-01-05 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Standard Targets): Don't explicitly mention any
compression formats other than gzip.
2009-12-12 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Procedure): try to be more
explicit about the example gpg commands, etc.
Suggestion from Ward Vandewege.
2009-12-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Do not recommend world-writable directories in package tarballs.
* standards.texi (Releases): change recommended directory
mode to 755, include justification and refer to original text;
following CVE-2009-4029.
Report by Jim Meyering.
2009-11-20 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Preface),
* maintain.texi (Preface): mention gnustandards-commit mailing list.
2009-09-14 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Configuration): Environment variables should be
supported for configure as well as options.
2009-07-24 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Web Pages): reorganize into subnodes.
(Old Versions): mention savannah-announce mailing list.
(About This Document): mention fsfstatus url.
No substantive changes in all of that.
2009-06-07 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Man Pages): refer to the all-permissive license
in maintain.texi instead of quoting it.
2009-04-29 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices for Other Files): second sentence
about no warranty, per legal advice.
2009-04-16 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Releases): COPYING.LESSER, not COPYING.LIB.
Report from Simon Ward, 15 Apr 2009 21:57:53.
2009-03-12 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Announcements): suggestions for
announcement contents.
2009-03-04 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* gnu-oids.texi: allocate .6 to GNU Shishi for
Simon Josefsson.
2009-02-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (--help): tweak punctuation of sample output.
2009-02-05 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Registration): more hints
about how to use gpg.
2009-01-26 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (--help): recommend including the package's home
page and gnu.org/gethelp.
2009-01-18 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Standalone directives): clarify that `rmsymlink'
fails unless the symlink exists, but `symlink' overwrites an
existing symlink. Information from Sergey Poznyakoff.
2008-12-31 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices for Documentation): clarify that
long and/or FSF-published manuals should include the GPL.
2008-11-14 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Procedure): mention that
gnupload can now delete files as well as upload them.
2008-11-10 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* fdl.texi: update to 1.3 file. Missed this earlier.
2008-11-08 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices): explicitly mention that there
is no need for a plain text version of the FDL, e.g., no COPYING.DOC.
2008-11-07 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Utilities in Makefiles): add tr.
Request from Eric Blake, bug-standards 04 Nov 2008 06:21:05 (and ff).
2008-11-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi, standards.texi, make-stds.texi: upgrade license
to FDL 1.3+, including example text in maintain.texi.
2008-11-04 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* gnu-oids.texi: correct comment; included in standards, not maintain.
2008-10-31 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (OID Allocations): new node.
* gnu-oids.texi: new file with current allocations, from Werner Koch.
2008-10-13 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Announcements): mention planet.gnu.org and
savannah news feeds. Suggestion from Ralf Wildenhues.
2008-08-04 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Procedure): mention gnupload and
ncftpput[-ftp] for doing the gnu.org uploads.
2008-08-01 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi: mostly suggestions from dbe based on dubbing mail:
mention coding standards and mentors@gnu.org;
update accounts info url;
mention gnu.org/people/people.html;
more discussion of mailing lists;
Free Software Directory entries.
2008-07-27 Karl Berry <karl@tug.org>
* standards.texi (Configuration): make clear that this is the
specification and that autoconf/automake are not the required
implementation.
2008-07-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Clean Ups): correct section title (Tips and
Conventions) in elisp reference.
2008-06-10 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Option Table) <--file>: -f is --file in sed, too.
<--reference>: touch -r is this, not --file.
Use @code{make} for consistency with other program names.
bug-standards mail from Iain Calder, 01 Jun 2008 05:23:10.
2008-05-05 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Source Language): mention GTK+ bindings in Guile.
2008-04-25 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Standard Targets): ok to support other free
compression formats.
* maintain.texi (Free Software and Open Source): update url to
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html.
2008-04-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
and Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (General Conventions for Makefiles): more notes
on portability.
2008-03-30 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* standards.texi: Fix links to config and gnulib repos, add some
`@/' to url's.
2008-03-21 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Notices): missing "of".
2008-03-14 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Papers): discuss disclaim.translation
and the Translation Project.
2008-02-24 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Registration): avoid double "also".
2008-02-23 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Configuration): support the options to set the
directory variables, such as --prefix and --exec-prefix.
2008-02-14 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Utilities in Makefiles): Don't imply that gzip
is the only compression program that can be used in make dist.
2008-02-11 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Papers): Distinguish personal disclaimers
from employer's disclaimers.
2008-01-30 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices for Documentation): new
Back-Cover Text.
2008-01-19 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Hosting): subversions.gnu.org is now
savannah.gnu.org; recommend using ftp.gnu.org a little more strongly.
(Announcements): recommend using info-gnu more strongly.
2008-01-17 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (GNU Free Documentation License): new node; change
license of document, after discussion with rms, Eben, and Brett.
2008-01-05 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Registration): first create an
account at savannah. (Requested by sysadmin.)
2007-12-30 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* (License Notices): move mention of licensing@gnu.org to a more
general place.
(License Notices for Documentation),
(Free Software and Open Source): consistently put punctuation
outside quotes (except when it's part of the quote).
(GNU and Linux): Typo.
2007-12-30 Tim Retout <diocles@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Legally Significant Changes): use
gender-neutral pronouns.
2007-11-29 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Command Variables): allow (but do not require)
installing multiple files at once. Request from Akim Demaille.
2007-11-24 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Legal Matters): remove trailing whitespace.
2007-11-14 Ward Vandewege <ward@gnu.org>
* doc/maintain.texi (FTP Upload Directive File - v1.1):
Add example how to archive a directory.
2007-11-04 Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>
* maintain.texi (Web Pages): Mention the --texi2html option
to gendocs.sh.
2007-10-10 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi,
* standards.texi: Fix a few typos.
2007-10-08 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Web Pages): GNU package web sites should run on
free software exclusively.
(Ethical and Philosophical Consideration): Modernize
the passage about patents.
* standards.texi: Clarify the issues of references to non-free
programs and documentation.
2007-10-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Stepping Down),
(Canonical License Sources),
(Old Versions): Mention Git, and generalize mentions of source control.
Idea from: Benoit Sigoure, bug-gnulib mail 4 Oct 2007 18:47:44.
2007-09-25 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Procedure): Incomplete uploaded
files now deleted after 24 hours; info from Ward Vandewege,
25 Sep 2007 15:20:53.
2007-09-23 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (System Portability): Abbreviating Windows to
"un" seems like a typo. Reported by John Darrington,
23 Sep 2007 03:32:24.
2007-09-20 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices): Wrong @menu punctuation for Texinfo.
2007-09-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (References): Missing word "to".
2007-09-05 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Utilities in Makefiles): Add awk to allowed
utilities list. Requested by Ralf Wildenhues.
2007-08-18 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (DESTDIR): Must be an absolute file name.
Requested by Ralf Wildenhues.
2007-07-25 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices for Code): More punctuation fixes
from Eric Blake.
2007-07-24 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices for Code): Sync wording with
gpl-3.0.texi. Reported by Eric Blake.
2007-07-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (all @menus): Consistently capitalize and punctuate.
* standards.texi (GNU Free Documentation License): Make @appendix,
replacing "Copying This Manual". Reported by Paul Eggert.
* fdl.texi: Update to new version (without @node).
2007-07-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices): Split up into new nodes:
Canonical License Sources,
License Notices for Code,
License Notices for Documentation,
License Notices for Other Files.
Also, update for GPLv3.
Also, clarify that the Cover Texts are only required for large
manuals and/or those that FSF publishes on paper.
2007-07-07 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices, Proofreading): use ``...'''
instead of "...". Double space where appropriate.
2007-06-27 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (--version): use / for exceptions, make version
number location clearer.
2007-06-26 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (--version, --help): new nodes, split from
Command-Line Interfaces. Include table of license abbreviations
and new recommended --version output.
* maintain.texi (License Notices): new Back-Cover Text.
2007-05-23 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copying from Other Packages): mention writing
license statements when they were omitted by the original authors.
2007-03-08 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Preface): We don't have or update
/gd/gnuorg/maintain.tar.gz any more, and it seems
unnecessary to reinstate it. Reported by Thomas Schwinge,
ticket 330574.
2007-01-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (References): Er, "free software", not "freely
available".
2007-01-21 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (References): Update Java reference, add mplayer
issues. Correct a -- to ---.
* maintain.texi (Ethical and Philosophical Consideration): GIF
patents have expired, so just mention the general principle.
2006-12-05 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Web Pages): GIF patents expired, tweak wording.
Consistently use a single space after @node and @section.
2006-11-15 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi: core -> memory, throughout.
(CPU Portability): show correct example of calling write
on a char value; thanks to Paul Eggert for the code.
Both of these suggestions from Eugene Y. Vasserman.
2006-10-18 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Procedure): texinfo typo.
2006-10-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Recording Contributors): typo.
2006-04-23 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Recording Contributors): Explain updating AUTHORS
from change log.
(Copying from Other Packages): New node.
2006-08-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
and Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
* make-stds.texi (menu): Adjust to changed node order.
(DESTDIR): This variable is not specified to the configure
script.
* standards.texi (Configuration): Document that configure
should accept arguments of the form `VARIABLE=VALUE' and why
this is preferable to environment variables.
2006-08-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* make-stds.texi, standards.texi: Update FDL version number from
1.1 to 1.2.
2006-07-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi: attempt to clarify that [install-]
html/ps/pdf/dvi targets should exist, but might not do anything.
Suggestions from Eric Blake and Bruno Haible.
2006-07-09 <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* maintain.texi, make-stds.texi, standards.texi: Fix some typos.
2006-05-24 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
* standards.texi (Internationalization): Change the example with
plurals to use the ngettext function, and move it to the end. Add
a new example showing the need for entire sentences.
2006-05-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (DESTDIR): new node, moving text.
(Directory variables): mention that not all variables might be
implemented.
2006-04-23 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (GNU Manuals): Document that we reject the
Unix convention of writing `()' after function names.
Say put basic topics first. Clarify.
2006-04-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Formatting Your Source Code): mislabeled
traditional C example as Standard C. From Paul E.
* standards.texi: use @/ in url's to avoid some overfull lines.
2006-04-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* make-stds.texi: Bump copyright year.
(Command Variables, Directory Variables): Fix spelling
`filesystem' -> `file system'.
2006-03-22 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices): the FDL is 1.2 now, not 1.1.
Also remove trailing whitespace.
From Paul Eggert.
2006-03-10 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices): there is no (b), should be (a).
From Paul Eggert.
(Legal Matters): the copyright request forms are now in gnulib as well.
2006-02-13 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Command-Line Interfaces): link to Copyright
Notices in maintain.texi; suggestion from Eli.
2006-02-08 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Non-GNU Standards): new section.
2006-01-09 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Releases): mention
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html. Suggested by
Alfred Szmidt.
2006-01-01 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Notices): keep gnulib files as they
are; more explanatory description (from Bruno) about the new rule.
2005-12-25 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Formatting): column one, not zero, per elsewhere
in the doc. From Kyle <mackyle@gmail.com>, 15 Dec 2005 15:50:04 -0800.
(Quote Characters): ASCII apparently considered ` an actual
left quote, and it got messed up later.
* maintain.texi (Copyright Notices): update all files at once;
copyright notices may be split over several lines.
2005-12-06 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Copyright Notices): new, simpler rules,
from rms and lawyers.
2005-10-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* standards.texi (CPU Portability): Don't mention just IA-64, as
the same problem occurs on AMD64 and EM64T as well. Just say
"64-bit programs on Microsoft Windows" so that we needn't track
Microsoft's releases so closely.
2005-08-18 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Character set): new section, preferring ASCII.
(Quote characters): new section, preferring `...' (despite
standards) in the C locale.
* standards.texi (Configuration): New url for config.guess and
config.sub.
* standards.texi (Comments): Mention that the program comment
should be in the file with the "main" function of the program.
2005-06-01 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi: various typos and corrections reported by
Ming Kin Lai, 24 May 2005 00:38:00 -0700.
2005-02-13 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Directory Variables): clarify descriptions for
libexecdir, datarootdir, and datadir. Thanks to Alexandre and
Alfred Szmidt.
2005-01-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* make-stds.texi: spurious @c in copyright statement.
2005-01-04 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (License Notices): Allow all-permissive license
for third-party Autoconf macros.
2005-01-04 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* maintain.texi (Legal Matters): timing info.
2005-01-01 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Install Command Categories): Correct the
pre-install.awk example. `make -s' needed, typos in awk script.
2004-12-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* standards.texi (CPU Portability): update for modern machines,
especially varargs example.
2004-12-06 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@src.lip6.fr>
* make-stds.texi (Standard Targets): let clean targets
remove anything that's normally installed.
2004-12-03 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* make-stds.texi (Command Line Interfaces): --machine is used in
uname. Reported to gnu@gnu.org.
2004-11-29 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>
* standards.texi (Man Pages): use all-permissive license.
(Source Language): typo - language not languge.
* make-stds.texi (Directory Variables) <docdir, htmldir, dvidir,
pdfdir, psdir>: new variables.
{datadir}: spelling error in description.
(Standard Targets) <install-html, install-dvi, install-pdf,
install-ps>: new targets.
Thanks to Alexandre Duret-Lutz, Akim Demaille, and Bruno Haible
for extensive comments on this text.
* maintain.texi (Automated Upload Procedure): get msg on
successful upload, too.
(Copyright Papers): typo - missing verb.
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