On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:53:06 +0300 Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but here's my take:
- Maintainer: The person who currently maintains a package. - Contributor: The person who first submitted the package. If a package is so badly constructed that it needs to be rewritten from scratch, the contributor tag would only list the person who did the rewrite.
I know we've agreed on multiple contributor tags, but I believe the method detailed above is cleaner, more maintainable and more straight-forward. I'll most likely adopt it for my own packages, but I'm not saying that anyone else should.
I would say that we should hold a voting to make a final decision. However, it's not an important issue at all, so the current way of doing things (multiple contributor lines) is sufficient.
As I already mentioned someplace else it's still mixed up here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards I'd love it if someone knowledgeable could go through that page and could correct any other errors before I try to adhere to those standards. There are also other points that aren't mentioned there, like whether one should use $pkgver or ${pkgver}. All the PKGBUILd.proto files use $pkgver, I've seen both versions in wildlife. /me is now off to edit contributor tags.. Philipp