Dont mail me On 12-Sep-2014 9:28 PM, "Kurt Zeilenga" <[email protected]> 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. > > -- Kurt
