And what if I adopted a package from someone? Am I a Contributor or a
Maintainer on that case?
Alper KANAT <[email protected]>
[email protected] yazmış:
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
