On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@gmail.com> wrote:
stefan-husmann@t-online.de wrote:
What should I add myself as, when adopting a package, if not using the Maintainer tag? "Contributor" maybe?
Yes!
Actually, I just read a wiki entry[1] on this which clears things up.
# Maintainer: the maintainer responsible for this pkg in the official repositories # Contributor: the person who wrote the first PKGBUILD for this package
So I shouldn't add myself at all to packages I adopt. :o /me goes to update his adopted packages.
---------------- [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS_PKGBUILD_Explained
It does make sense, at least to me, to have your name and email address in a PKGBUILD you currently maintain in AUR, even if you didn't create it. However, I don't think there is any policy about this. I have seen some "custom" tags, which I can't remember exactly and of course much misuse of the maintainer tag - I am guilty of that one myself. What one could do to prevent further misuse of the Maintainer tag would be introducing a new tag like AUR-Maintainer and put it in the wiki. Notice that this is just an example, I wouldn't be against calling this different. It wouldn't stop the "Maintainer Tag problem" all at once, but it might help reducing it.