On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 18:46 +1930, Angel Velásquez wrote: > 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 >
I only send that email to show that this type of discussion is tenious at best. I look at the Maintainer tag as the "Contact person" only. The other tag I can do without (my opinion only) but I understand why people would like to maintain their names there as well. Looks like you need a Maintainer tag for the Contributor tag......what would that tag be called?
