[aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

[Angel Velásquez]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 18:46 +1930, Angel Velásquez wrote:
>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 16:42 +0200, hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:07:03 +0530
>> >> Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > 2009/5/21 Alper KANAT <tunix at raptiye.org>:
>> >> > > And what if I adopted a package from someone? Am I a Contributor or
>> >> > > a Maintainer on that case?
>> >> > >
>> >> >
>> >> > In all cases the Maintainer tag if present should have the same
>> >> > information as that of the web interface. Otherwise it loses its
>> >> > relevance.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> email addresses can change and be off, the tag in the PKGBUILD rarely
>> >> contains the username but the realname is mostly the same, all
>> >> provided a new maintainer didn't forget to add his credentials to the
>> >> PKGBUILD. So yeah, the information is almost always different to some
>> >> degree.
>> >>
>> >> But: what must be the same? I realise that it would be nice if it
>> >> was the same.
>> >>
>> >> Philipp
>> >
>> > What if I use abs to fetch the entire core/extra and then build and
>> > maintain that tree?  Am I now the maintainer and everyone else
>> > contributors?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Oh boy we just discussed this weeks ago, like a month or so.
>>
>> Even I though in send another e-mail remembering to _some people_
>> about how the things should be with the maintainer tag (the maintainer
>> tag with my name were removed in several packages and I wasn't added
>> as a contributor), but I won't complain about it, because for me it
>> doesn't matter, but I think that several people would like to preserve
>> their names on PKGBUILD that they dedicated sometime.
>>
>> IMHO that discussion [0] should be enough, any dev to make that
>> discussion as the *official* way?
>>
>> [0] http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-April/004386.html
>>
>
> I only send that email to show that this type of discussion is tenious
> at best.
>
> I look at the Maintainer tag as the "Contact person" only.  The other
> tag I can do without (my opinion only) but I understand why people would
> like to maintain their names there as well.
>
> Looks like you need a Maintainer tag for the Contributor tag......what
> would that tag be called?
>
>

According the last thread, we agreed that the past maintainers will
became *contributors*, so.. If I was maintainer of X package and I
left the crew, the guy who will pick the package should take the
"maitainer" tag, and change my old maintainer tag and put my name as a
contributor.

As I said, I don't really care about this, it's ok for me,  but seems
that some people don't follow that rule, the point of the last
discussion was to clarify the rule and start to applying.. and seems
that the discussion was forgotten :(.



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