Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> Lace you are a true revolutionary ! If only you had *my* arroganceand 
> perserverence you could have pushed this through a year ago :) ( <- this 
> *is*
> 
> a joke, please accept my heartfelt apologies if it offends in any way)
> 
> I have just read through that thread and it pretty much mirrors this one.
> SOme MAINTAINERS are active, some aren't, inactive ones should be removed
> from 
> DETAILS as it is misleading.
> I think the next issue of guru's access to sections other than their own has
> 
> been solved by opening up the grimoire for the NGA, everyone has access to 
> everything now right ? SO if you are maintainer of a spell in someone elses 
> section you *can* just fix it now.
> Next, AUTHOR was suggested then as the variable to give credit to the
> original 
> spell creator. It won't be used by sorcery at the moment, but this feature 
> could be added if authors felt cheated.
> Lastly I have actually been actively removing MAINTAINER from spells I work
> on 
> if the listed maintainer has not had any input into the spell in the period 
> I
> 
> have been active as a guru (around four months , I am still just a baby :) )
> 
> which leaves MAINTAINER in the root directory of that section to announce 
> the
> 
> contact for the spell.
> Attached is the output of 
> grep -r MAINTAINER= devel/ | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq
> I have never seen most of the names perform any maintenance on their spells.
> SO I think we *do* have agreement now. MAINTAINER is *only* used if valid,
> new 
> spells should use AUTHOR instead and we should all have more fun.
> Anyone object to removing invalid MAINTAINER entries and using AUTHOR for 
> creation credits ?
> Hamish

Why use AUTHORS when the HISTORY says (or should say) who created the spell? 
I'm
against adding extra variables to DETAILS unless it has a /functionaly/
purpose.  I'd like to remove some unneeded fields (such as ENTERED, as HISTORY
will have this as well, or should) and SPELL (why do we have SPELL when the
directory you are in is the same as the name?).

-sandalle

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