2008/9/22 Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As Eric pointed out, Pierre is talking about the maintainer of the > PKGBUILD, not the builder of the package. > > Additionally, if parsing shell scripts is the issue here, why not add > some new metainfo: > maintainer="Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
I think a new metainfo is a nice idea but it'd be cool if the devs could additionally be allocated a unique ID that can be cross-reffed to a dbase to avoid having to update the email manually/avoid having an out of date email in an old file. The first thing that springs to mind as an ID is the list of names on http://www.archlinux.org/developers/ e.g. maintainer=(AaronG DanM) I'm thinking these could be nicely parsed out in/by the web interface and linked up to hopefully up to date contact details. A few caveats instantly spring to mind, such as this is only really implementable for official pkgs and devs, but it can also provide nice meta info for AUR pkgs. > > Seems ok to me. We could even start doing it right now, as makepkg > will just ignore it for now >
