On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 15:15 +0300, Antti Nykänen wrote:
Hi,
On 2006-09-29 at 00:27, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
Anyway, it'd be nice to reach some consensus and see some consistency with the use of that field. Is the info useful? Could it be located elsewhere, e.g. commit messages? If not, wouldn't (multiple) Contributor: fields make more sense, or will there always be at most 2 people contributing to a port?
I think that if something is decided to be left out, it should be Packager, since maintainer changes are tracked in svn, and whoever imports it should be responsible for the port even if it's copied from someone else (this should probably be mentioned in the initial commit message). Adding multiple contributor fields doesn't sound very good.
Completely agreed. In contrast to the Packager field, the Maintainer field is actually useful - the Contributor idea was just to show that even the current "usage" of Packager (giving credit) is broken because it only allows one person to be listed :)