On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Baho Utot <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > >
Oh boy we just discussed this weeks ago, like a month or so. Even I though in send another e-mail remembering to _some people_ about how the things should be with the maintainer tag (the maintainer tag with my name were removed in several packages and I wasn't added as a contributor), but I won't complain about it, because for me it doesn't matter, but I think that several people would like to preserve their names on PKGBUILD that they dedicated sometime. IMHO that discussion [0] should be enough, any dev to make that discussion as the *official* way? [0] http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-April/004386.html -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909
