On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 21:39, Xyne <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it makes the most sense to designate the person currently maintaining > the package/PKGBUILD as the maintainer irrespective of that person's status > in the community or the destination of the package/PKGBUILD. It immediately > indicates to anyone looking at the PKGBUILD whom they should contact about > updating it. > > I think previous maintainers should be listed as contributors along with > anyone who's contributed signficant changes to the package. > > Telling people that they can't claim to be a "maintainer" of a package > because they're not a dev or TU comes across the wrong way too. Just because > the binary isn't hosted in the AUR doesn't mean that the work of maintaining > a package (updating, responding to comments, etc) is any different than if > the binary were uploaded. > > Just my 2¢. >
+1 on all counts
