On Thu, 21 May 2009 12:58:54 +0300 Alper KANAT <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey There, > > I've packaged 11 packages upto now and the reason why I don't choose > to use the Maintainer tag but the Contributor tag is that AUR > Packaging Standards says: > > When building packages for Arch Linux, you should adhere to the > package guidelines below, especially if you would like to contribute > your new package to Arch Linux. > > as the first sentence. The word "contribute" is in bold which always > made me think that I'm not maintaining the package but I'm > contributing the distro. > > Hope this helps to understand a user point of view. > > Cheers.. > > > Alper KANAT <[email protected]> The terminology and use was discussed a couple of weeks ago and what was agreed on is pretty much: Use maintainer if you maintain a package (and when you're the initial author of the PKGBUILD? at least that's how I do it) Use contributor for former maintainers or to attribute help you received. Regards, Philipp
