On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 18:46 +1930, Angel Velásquez wrote:
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 16:42 +0200, hollunder@gmx.at wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:07:03 +0530 Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/5/21 Alper KANAT <tunix@raptiye.org>:
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?
According the last thread, we agreed that the past maintainers will became *contributors*, so.. If I was maintainer of X package and I left the crew, the guy who will pick the package should take the "maitainer" tag, and change my old maintainer tag and put my name as a contributor. As I said, I don't really care about this, it's ok for me, but seems that some people don't follow that rule, the point of the last discussion was to clarify the rule and start to applying.. and seems that the discussion was forgotten :(. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909