bug#49405: Attribution for printed manual

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2021 at 12:11 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: "Glenn Morris" <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: 49405-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> Subject: bug#49405: Attribution for printed manual
>
> > From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> > Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2021 15:58:20 -0400
> >
> > The printed version of the Emacs manual only lists a single author.
> > Ref eg book-spine.texi "by", back.texi "About the Author", etc.
> > The manual is the work of many people (according to the git log, rms has
> > made one commit to it in the past 12 years).
> > So I think it would be nice to at least get an "et al." in
> > book-spine.texi and some mention of the existence of other contributors
> > in back.texi.
>
> Thanks, fixed.

Don't we have history files of what who done what?  I wonder if it makes sense
to have a history for each function, rather than per file, with separate version
number.