On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 04:43:54PM +0200, Robert Emil Berge wrote:
Den Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:57:03 +0800 "Callan Barrett" <wizzomafizzo@gmail.com> skrev:
I don't think it has any practical reason. It's just such a damn old rule nobody questions it.
It can't be that old. This is the first time I've heard of it. The Contributor tag has a long history, from way before the AUR. It's from the time when people just uploaded packages to an ftp server to contribute, and then the devs would look at them when they had time, and include it in the repo if they thought it made sense. Then the user who first uploaded the package would be named as Contributor in the PKGBUILD. If you look at the jack-audio-connection-kit and rosegarden packages, you'll still see my name as Contributor, even though the package has been in extra since 2004, and probably don't contain one line of code from my origial PKGBUILDs. I think it is wrong to put your own name in the Contributor field just because you have adopted a package. I think the Maintainer field should be used for that, since the one who has adopted a package, normal user or TU, is in fact the Maintainer, and the one who should be contacted if there's a problem with the package.
Robert
I think you should be able to put whatever the hell you want in the comments of an unsupported PKGBUILD. I think this line would be cool: # Ruler of the Universe: Your Name <you@email.com>