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

[Daenyth Blank]

2009/4/5 Angel Velásquez <angvp at 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