<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Lennart Regebro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:regebro@gmail.com" target="_blank">regebro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Wed, Apr 24, <a href="tel:2013" value="+9722013">2013</a> at 11:19 AM, anatoly techtonik <<a href="mailto:techtonik@gmail.com">techtonik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Having a lot of meaningless options doesn't make meta data any more clear.<br>
> Well, they are not meaningless, but their role is fully fulfilled by other<br>
> options (Author and Maintainer fields in this particular case).<br>
><br>
> The use case for the Author field is that if Author wants to be contacted,<br>
> (s)he leaves email. That's it. This use case should be described in the<br>
> meta-data along with the format that are expected to be recognized by the<br>
> software:<br>
><br>
> Author: anatoly techtonik<br>
> Author: anatoly techtonik <<a href="mailto:techtonik@gmail.com">techtonik@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Author: anatoly techtonik <<a href="mailto:techtonik@gmail.com">techtonik@gmail.com</a>>, Anything Else for Humans,<br>
> Or For Future Specs<br>
><br>
> Here the field content defines its type - it's like duck typing for<br>
> specification, which make specifications more pythonic.<br>
><br>
> Is it good?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Nope. Having a separate field for email makes it clear that you should<br>
add the email there IMO. However, both author-email and<br>
maintainer-email are redundant, as is author and maintainer. The<br>
relevant info is maintainer, to be honest.<br>
<br>
//Lennart<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Probably some projects have more than one person handling them. I agree that the author/maintainer distinction isn't interesting. A list of maintainer emails may be a good solution.<br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>Not that we can have any semblance of this on pypi, I just wanted to mention this is very nicely done on github e.g. <a href="https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/contributors">https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/contributors</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>Yuval Greenfield</div><div style><br></div></div></div></div>