Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:38, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 10:12:24PM +1000, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> > On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:56, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > > Same goes for the language bindings. What about another section
> > > x11-toolkits that can hold all the toolkits and the language bindings?
> >
> > that sounds good too.
> > Hamish
>
> If we do that i suggest reintroducing the MAINTAINER field in DETAILS,
> stating the real maintainer of the spell (and overriding the MAINTAINER
> of the section). That way the gtk spells could be maintained by the
> gnome gure, qt-x11 by the kde guru, the ruby bindings by someone who
> uses them (me :) and so on. That would allow placing spells in
> appropriate sections while keeping maintenance to the guru who knows
> most about them and their dependencies/dependants.
I actually think Maintainer is misused in many places. most of the spells I 
work on don't have a MAINTAINER they have an original author who deserves 
some credit, and a HISTORY file that shows who has worked on it thus far but 
the MAINTAINER field in spells is just plain wrong. MAINTAINER  has a 
specific meaning that most maintainers (as listed in DETAILS) haven't earned, 
CREATOR or AUTHOR would be more appropriate and MAINTAINER should be filled 
in only if regular updating has been done.
For example
Arwed all the video spells are deserving of your name in MAINTAINER file as 
you do a lot of work to maintain them. In other sections the maintainer 
listed might not have touched that spell in 6 months, or ever since the spell 
was created.
I think the MAINTAINER file in the root of each section is enough. And 
HISTORY 
tells the rest of the story.
Hamish
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