On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 08:21:53PM -0700, Alex Graveley wrote: > Just wondering... is there a point to keeping a separate AUTHORS file, > or should we just svn mv these to MAINTAINERS and update the format?
I think it is good to have separate files. The AUTHORS file has all developers. The MAINTAINERS has the people who really maintain the software. E.g., the people who should at least be able to (all items): * Make sole decisions about the of your project (extreme example: when a maintainer of a project asks to kill the SVN repos on svn.gnome.org, there should not be a question of whether that maintainer is able to make/approve such a decision) * Distribute a release on ftp.gnome.org * Have the ability to edit the product on GNOME Bugzilla (add/remove components, versions, target milestones, etc) * Approve SVN accounts for the project * Add/remove other maintainers Especially for a larger project the maintainers are a small subset of the who development team (often limited to 1-2 persons). -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
