Callan Barrett wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Henning Garus <henning.garus@googlemail.com> wrote:
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.
I've never understood this rule, especially when I was enforcing it. Why aren't AUR maintainers allowed to use the maintainer tag?
I agree. It is not as if people get confused and think a package is official just because of that tag. Or am I giving people too much credit... :P