Simplify 426: Deprecate Author-email and Maintainer-email
24 Apr
2013
24 Apr
'13
5:19 a.m.
Having a lot of meaningless options doesn't make meta data any more clear.
Well, they are not meaningless, but their role is fully fulfilled by other
options (Author and Maintainer fields in this particular case).
The use case for the Author field is that if Author wants to be contacted,
(s)he leaves email. That's it. This use case should be described in the
meta-data along with the format that are expected to be recognized by the
software:
Author: anatoly techtonik
Author: anatoly techtonik
4008
Age (days ago)
4011
Last active (days ago)
18 comments
8 participants
participants (8)
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anatoly techtonik
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Daniel Holth
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Donald Stufft
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Lennart Regebro
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Nick Coghlan
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Ronald Oussoren
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Vinay Sajip
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Yuval Greenfield