On Tue 01 Dec 2015 08:12, Florian Paul Schmidt <[email protected]> writes:
> ...and encourage its use. The intended semantics is to list people > that have contributed to the packaging effort. The motivation behind > this proposal is that in many free software projects attribution can > be a major source of motivation to get people involved. Having the > packagers be first class citizens in the package definitions (as > opposed to the information being only implicitly available through > e.g. "git blame") would allow things like "guix package" or the > package list on the website to display the contributor's names. Since you ask for opinions, -1 from me :) Currently Guix packages are more-or-less collectively owned. Introducing this field implies to me an introduction of ownership of packages. Ownership has a number of negative effects: it can inhibit casual fixes and it can introduce unnecessary conflicts. The kind of ego-based positive feedback that having a maintainer field would introduce is negative IMO. It is good if people feel attached to Guix-the-project and GuixSD-the-software-distribution, and to a degree they get that by copyright, git blame, and NEWS. Feeling attached to a particular package is not as useful for the project or the distribution. IMO :) Andy
