On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:57:42AM +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:35:59PM -0800, Thayer Williams wrote:
Personally, I feel it's important to give credit where credit is due. IMO it doesn't matter whether someone orphans a PKGBUILD, they still deserve credit for their initial efforts in creating/maintaining it. I also believe it's valid for non-TUs to be considered "maintainers" within the AUR. They are in effect maintaining the package, even if it's only a build script. Should the package later be adopted by a dev/TU then the initial maintainer should be credited for their contribution. That's just good business in my opinion.
+1
Maintainer == current custodian of the PKGBUILD and/or binaries Contributor == one who has previously contributed to the maintenance of said PKGBUILD and/or binary
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