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

Andrei Thorp garoth at gmail.com
Fri May 22 09:01:17 EDT 2009


On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 08:45, Andrei Thorp <garoth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, can we get back to Abhishek's topic please?
>>
>> I think I agree with his thinking:
>>  - Make the maintainer a proper singular bash variable string
>>  - Make the contributors a praper bash array
> -1. This is totally unneeded. As Allan said, it doesn't matter at all.
> I see it purely as crediting previous workers in the case of
> Contributor, and in the case of Maintainer, it supplies the contact
> info more easily than the web interface.

What's so -1y to crediting past contributors? But yeah, sure, can keep
that as a comment and have the "owner" bash string or whatever.

-AT


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