[aur-general] TU application: Biru Ionut

Jens Maucher jensmaucher at online.de
Sun Apr 5 13:12:03 EDT 2009


Well, when my information was wrong.. please update the wiki!

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_Maintainer

Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2009, 13:09 -0400 schrieb Daenyth Blank:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 13:03, Jens Maucher <jensmaucher at online.de> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2009, 18:49 +0200 schrieb Stefan Husmann:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I think we some time ago came to the conclusion that the one who
> >> actually takes care of the package _now_ is the Maintainer, and everyone
> >> who formerly maintained the package is a contributor.
> >
> > A Package Maintainer, in the context of Arch Linux, is either one of the
> > following:
> > *A core Arch Linux developer who maintains software packages in the
> > official repositories (core, extra, or testing).
> >
> > *A Trusted User of the community who maintains software packages in the
> > unsupported/unofficial community repository.
> >
> >
> > A Contributor is a non-TU who maintain packages in AUR
> >>
> >> IMHO exactly this are the meanings of the words "maintainer" and
> >> "contributor". But I may be completely wrong.
> >
> >>
> >> Regards Stefan
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > --
> > Jens Maucher <jensmaucher at online.de>
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> >
> That is no longer the case. I could dig up the ML thread in which it
> was discussed, but I'm rather lazy. Can you link to the page that has
> that wording so it can be updated?
> Maintainer is the person responsible for updating the package,
> contributors are as Stefan said, previous maintainers (or people who
> have submitted updates)
-- 
Jens Maucher <jensmaucher at online.de>
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