On Sep 12, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet <[email protected]> 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. > > Peter > > One approach that's worked well in IETF Working Groups I've chaired is to list current editor(s) instead of author(s), and listing authors in "Contributors" or other such section (separate from Acknowledgements). One reason to do this in the IETF is eases RFC publishing sign-offs, as the RFC Editor requires each and every listed editor/author to say "Okay" when publishing an RFC. -- Kurt
