OK, Jean. I am fine with having the author information for uploaders. BTW, if the author is already in the maintainer or upstream list, he/she does not need to be in the uploader list in order to put some changelogs, right? Otherwise, I have to think about having the uploader list in config.xml again.
Regards, - DongInn Jean Parpaillon wrote: > Hi, > > DongInn Kim wrote: >> Hi Jean, >> >> So, are you saying that we have to keep the history of the list of >> uploaders in config.xml in order to put their changelog to it? >> Can we just assume that the authors on the changelog are the >> uploaders? (in fact, it is, right?) >> > From my point of view, e-mail, company and years of contributions of an > author are important informations, even for an uploader. We can not put > all these informations in the changelog, that would cause redundancy > with authors' list. That's why I imagined that, in the changelog, > author's name is just a pointer to author's informations, like an id, > just a little bit more readable. > >> What is the benefit of having another list for only uploaders? > This is not another list. Just think about changelog entry author like > an id. > > >> Is there any particular reason that the uploader list is required on >> the debian? >> >> I am still not really convinced with having another list for the >> uploaders but if it is somehow required for opkgc, I don't mind using >> another list(uploaders) on config.xml. >> >> Regards, >> >> - DongInn >> >> > Regards, > Jean > >> Jean Parpaillon wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Le 20.11.2007 19:48, Bernard Li a écrit : >>> >>>> On 11/20/07, Erich Focht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I agree. This is annoying and should be reverted. I don't want to >>>>> force >>>>> the maintainer to update packages. If someone else can update it >>>>> and the maintainer >>>>> is in vacation, why not? >>>>> >>> In config.xml schema, we have 3 kind of authors: upstream, maintainer >>> and uploader. >>> Uploaders are people who just modify a little thing without being the >>> main maintainer. >>> >>> The reason of the enforcement is that we need to retrieve author's datas >>> (email, insitution and so on) from the changelog entry. >>> >>> Given this, is there a problem to force people who contribute to a >>> package to be added to the authors' list, as uploaders ? >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jean >>> >>> >>>> I'll put in my 2 cents worth of agreement with DongInn and Erich. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Bernard >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
