* David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> [2009-10-09T16:41:45] > Simplest: "author" is a list of contact points, which includes > authors, maintainers, mailing lists, etc. > > I'd like to avoid a complex data structure. > > If we deprecate author, I'd rather see contacts merged into > "resources" since we have analogous things there already we can > combine with. > > I'm OK if we add a copyrights field that is a list of all > contributors, but I'm not sure why we really need that in machine > readable metadata.
I agree with all of that. I think that there are so many ways to go, most of which will not actually buy us much, but will complicate the spec and just mean more crap in the distmeta. I'd rather just have one datum: in case of emergency, contact whom? Heck, this can be a mailing list. Oh, wait, we have a field for that! And we have a field for bug tracker and home page. So, a resource for "mailbox" works for me. -- rjbs
