On Fri Sep 24, 2004 at 02:4341PM -0400, Greg Beaver wrote:
>
> All the debate over maintainers has pointed out a few things. First and
> foremost - do we really need a maintainers tag?
>
> Every 2 months or so, someone accidentally resets their package rights
> by setting the wrong role in the package.xml.
>
> Why not instead make it informational only, for RSS feeds and other
> automatic processing (pear info could display maintainers)
>
> <author>
> <name>Greg Beaver</name>
> [<email>cellog@xxxxxxx</email>]
> [<role>lead</role>]
> [other optional informational tags]
> </author>
>
> or
>
> <author name="Greg Beaver">
> [optional informational tags]
> </author>
>
> I'd prefer the second way, since you can
>
> <author name="Greg Beaver"/>
>
> no matter what, the pearweb role of a maintainer should not be
> changeable from within the package.xml, it introduces too many potential
> probelms at pearweb.
>
> Greg
>
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