2009/4/5 Angel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.com.ve>:
This should be 4.- and it's more like than my 2nd point .. then that point about Maintainer is just because exist a binary package in official repos and it's maintained by will be lost, so the concept will change to Maintainer is the people who actually owns the PKGBUILD in any repo or AUR.. (just to clarify how to use the tags). I don't really have any comment to add here, but I'm not quite sure if I understand... you're saying that the intention of the maintainer tag is to store the data because the binary repos don't?
Don't know, sometimes I just generate flames, maybe is my bad english :D. Ah, ok. I was confused :P
So resuming: there is a new point on the list! by Daenyth, who will decide will be the valid point is the question that I have right now. As I said before, it seems like the general consensus was in favor of changing it. http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-October/002502.html