Well, when my information was wrong.. please update the wiki! http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_Maintainer Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2009, 13:09 -0400 schrieb Daenyth Blank:
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:03, Jens Maucher <jensmaucher@online.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2009, 18:49 +0200 schrieb Stefan Husmann:
Hello,
I think we some time ago came to the conclusion that the one who actually takes care of the package _now_ is the Maintainer, and everyone who formerly maintained the package is a contributor.
A Package Maintainer, in the context of Arch Linux, is either one of the following: *A core Arch Linux developer who maintains software packages in the official repositories (core, extra, or testing).
*A Trusted User of the community who maintains software packages in the unsupported/unofficial community repository.
A Contributor is a non-TU who maintain packages in AUR
IMHO exactly this are the meanings of the words "maintainer" and "contributor". But I may be completely wrong.
Regards Stefan
Cheers
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That is no longer the case. I could dig up the ML thread in which it was discussed, but I'm rather lazy. Can you link to the page that has that wording so it can be updated? Maintainer is the person responsible for updating the package, contributors are as Stefan said, previous maintainers (or people who have submitted updates) -- Jens Maucher <jensmaucher@online.de> Gnupg: 44FF54EA Fingerprint: 0E54 F345 E7C9 0295 90F8 2B56 CD9A EE71 44FF 54EA