On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 16:42 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:07:03 +0530 > Abhishek Dasgupta <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2009/5/21 Alper KANAT <[email protected]>: > > > And what if I adopted a package from someone? Am I a Contributor or > > > a Maintainer on that case? > > > > > > > In all cases the Maintainer tag if present should have the same > > information as that of the web interface. Otherwise it loses its > > relevance. > > > > email addresses can change and be off, the tag in the PKGBUILD rarely > contains the username but the realname is mostly the same, all > provided a new maintainer didn't forget to add his credentials to the > PKGBUILD. So yeah, the information is almost always different to some > degree. > > But: what must be the same? I realise that it would be nice if it > was the same. > > Philipp
What if I use abs to fetch the entire core/extra and then build and maintain that tree? Am I now the maintainer and everyone else contributors?
