Hi Ævar,

On Mon, 7 Jun 2021, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

On Mon, Jun 07 2021, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:

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 .../using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt      | 38 +++++++++----------

This is a quote from a mail of Junio's[1] (date and all). I don't think
it makes sense to copyedit that after the fact without at least editing
the header that indicates that it's a verbatim reproduction.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vehuyosaa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org/ (local)

We edit those documents all the time, e.g. when `pu` was renamed to
`seen`.

And I think it is appropriate to edit them: as soon as those emails were
copied into a version-controlled repository, we implicitly indicated our
intention to iterate on them. Why else would we need to version-control
them, after all.

And it is desirable to edit them, too. If we truly want to be welcoming
and inviting (especially to potential contributors who currently feel
underrepresented), we need to model the language in our documentation
accordingly.

And I want to believe that we truly want to be welcoming like that.

Ciao,
Dscho