"maintainer" definition
I have a quick question regarding the maintainer{,_email} fields. Who exactly is supposed to be mentioned here? I checked the documentation and did not find anything on this topic. "Distributing Python Modules" just mentiones that you can also add this information to the setup.py file, while "tasks and roles" document uses a completely different terminology. So is there anything like a description of a maintainer? Thanks -- Misha
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. --amk
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
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:38:41PM +0100, Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
So in case the original author still works on this piece of software, the maintainer field won't be filled?
Correct.
Do I understand right that at the moment both author and maintainer are "single entity" parameters? The case when there are several
Also correct. --amk
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 amk@amk.ca wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:38:41PM +0100, Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
So in case the original author still works on this piece of software, the maintainer field won't be filled?
Correct.
Wouldn't it be better to have the author and the maintainer fields be the same if the author is still working on it? I would interpret a blank maintainer field to be "unmaintained". mwa -- Mark W. Alexander slash@dotnetslash.net
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