If I understand the question correctly, and I may not..... The answer is that you are a "contributor" of a PKGBUILD (et al) unless you are a TU, in which case you are "maintaining" the *binary* package.
Or at least that was what it was in at first. Very best regards; Bob Finch On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Callan Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Henning Garus > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It does make sense, at least to me, to have your name and email > > address in a PKGBUILD you currently maintain in AUR, even if you > > didn't create it. However, I don't think there is any policy about > > this. I have seen some "custom" tags, which I can't remember exactly > > and of course much misuse of the maintainer tag - I am guilty of that > > one myself. > > > > What one could do to prevent further misuse of the Maintainer tag > > would be introducing a new tag like AUR-Maintainer and put it in the > > wiki. Notice that this is just an example, I wouldn't be against > > calling this different. It wouldn't stop the "Maintainer Tag problem" > > all at once, but it might help reducing it. > > I've never understood this rule, especially when I was enforcing it. > Why aren't AUR maintainers allowed to use the maintainer tag? > > -- > Callan Barrett >
