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[Aaron Brice <abrice2 AT cox.net>]

Sounds good in theory.  I haven't submitted many spells, but the spells
I did submit, I created because I wanted to install them on my system,
and creating a spell to do it is so damn easy.  Having created them, I
don't know that I would have submitted them for inclusion in the
grimoire if it meant that I would be held responsible for keeping them
updated, fixing them, whatnot.  All right, I would have, because none of
them were gcc, but you see my point, there's going to be less
submissions if submitting a spell obligates you to support it.

There's also the fact that the author has a working version of the spell
and is less likely to find problems than someone who is installing it
later on when various versions have changed, sources no longer
available, etc.

Aaron

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 10:16, M.L. wrote:
> On Lundi 11 Novembre 2002 16:07, Julian v. Bock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks Julian for this warning.
> 
> I take it as an oportunity to reopen the spell maintainer issue... this 
> kind 
> of thing wouldn't happen if we have real (read: active) spell maintainers 
> who 
> create, fixe and update spells. 
> 
> Now we have a pretty big grimoire, It's time for spell maintainers (to be 
> recruited (?)) to go on duty and helps grimoire gurus.
> 
> I don't like the removal of MAINTAINER= filed in DETAILS file, as well as 
> it 
> redefinition to "original-spell-author-fire-and-forget".
> 
> Will we add this to the spell-writting howto soon ?
> 
> Bye,
> Mat.
> 
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