On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:17:36PM +0100, Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
I have a quick question regarding the maintainer{,_email} fields. Who exactly is supposed to be mentioned here? I checked the documentation
The author is the person who originally wrote a piece of software; the maintainer is the person who's actually maintaining it. For example, Sam Rushing is the author of Medusa, but I'm the current maintainer. So in case the original author still works on this piece of software,
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:03:43AM -0400, amk@amk.ca wrote: the maintainer field won't be filled? Do I understand right that at the moment both author and maintainer are "single entity" parameters? The case when there are several authors/maintainers cannot be directly described in setup.py file? -- Misha