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Re: is maintainers even necessary?: msg#00201

Subject: Re: is maintainers even necessary?
On Fri Sep 24, 2004 at 02:4341PM -0400, Greg Beaver wrote:
> 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.

Why don't we come up with some easy validation methods for the website
that prevent such problems?  I don't really see the advantage of
dropping the maintainer section at the moment.

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    - Martin                           Martin Jansen
                            http://martinjansen.com/



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