On 12/09/14 17:14, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet wrote: > On 9/12/14, 9:02 AM, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet wrote: > >> Unfortunately, XEP-0155 was only ever used in specs that Ian Paterson >> worked on (XEP-0136, XEP-0116). All of his protocols were needlessly >> complex and now we need to deal with the consequences (he disappeared >> from the XMPP community in ~2007). > > This raises the question of what we do about authors who are no longer > actively participating in the XSF's standards process (I ran into this > recently with fixes to various Jingle specs). I wonder if it would > make sense to specify who the maintainer is for any given XEP. For > example we could add a line at the top of XEP-0166 like so: > > Authors: Scott Ludwig, Joe Beda, Peter Saint-Andre, > Robert McQueen, Sean Egan, Joe Hildebrand > > Maintainer: Peter Saint-Andre > > Something like this would provide recognition to the original authors > while indicating who to contact about current issues. > +1
Even people not exactly new to the subject are sometimes experiencing difficulties determining who to contact. Edwin
