On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:53:06 +0300 Evangelos Foutras <foutre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but here's my take: > > - Maintainer: The person who currently maintains a package. > - Contributor: The person who first submitted the package. If a > package is so badly constructed that it needs to be rewritten from > scratch, the contributor tag would only list the person who did the > rewrite. > > I know we've agreed on multiple contributor tags, but I believe the > method detailed above is cleaner, more maintainable and more > straight-forward. I'll most likely adopt it for my own packages, but > I'm not saying that anyone else should. > > I would say that we should hold a voting to make a final decision. > However, it's not an important issue at all, so the current way of > doing things (multiple contributor lines) is sufficient. As I already mentioned someplace else it's still mixed up here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards I'd love it if someone knowledgeable could go through that page and could correct any other errors before I try to adhere to those standards. There are also other points that aren't mentioned there, like whether one should use $pkgver or ${pkgver}. All the PKGBUILd.proto files use $pkgver, I've seen both versions in wildlife. /me is now off to edit contributor tags.. Philipp