On Sep 12, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/12/14, 9:58 AM, Kurt Zeilenga wrote: >> >> 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. > > Yeah we don't have that step. Also the IETF has a rule against more than 5 > authors, so some folks end up in the Contributors section. I still like the approach as it the most currently active persons get top recognition while providing amble recognition who contributors over possibly many years and many revisions... and provides a clear contact. I do like at least breaking out the maintainer as you suggest for the latter reason. -- Kurt > > Peter > >
