[aur-general] Maintainer vs Contributor tag let's find a solution ; )

[Daenyth Blank]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 21:06, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> The accepted practice is to keep a contributor comment for all
> significant contributors of a PKGBUILD.
>
> I don't think it really matters if there's a maintainer comment or not.
> Maintainers for all packages are tracked by other means. That
> comment doesn't carry much weight. There's really no reason why
> maintainers of unsupported packages couldn't use it if they really
> wanted to.
>

I agree with this to a degree, but it is somewhat useful to have that
information stored in the PKGBUILD, so that you don't have to go
through the AUR interface, IMO