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  • From: "M.L." <mlubrano AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: Aaron Brice <abrice2 AT cox.net>
  • Cc: Source Mage <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Re: [SM-Grimoire]unmaintained sections
  • Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:55:16 +0100

On Mardi 12 Novembre 2002 05:50, Aaron Brice wrote:
> 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.

BTW there must be absolutely no obligation neither for creators nor for
maintainers... of course.

>
> 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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