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Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team



On 12-05-31 at 04:43pm, George Danchev wrote:
> On Thursday 31 May 2012 16:15:31 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > [dropping PHP Pear team as cc]
> > 
> > On 12-05-31 at 03:16pm, George Danchev wrote:
> > > On Thursday 31 May 2012 11:47:21 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > > You and a lot of others fail to realize that the *SPONSOR* is
> > > > > responsible for the package.
> > > > 
> > > > Huh?!?
> > > > 
> > > > What does "Maintainer:" mean if not the entity being responsible
> > > > for, well, maintaining?!?
> > > 
> > > Who is responsible for the package maintenance in the case where a
> > > non-DD is listed in "Maintainer:", and the package is obviosuly signed
> > > and uploaded (effectively sponsored) by a DD? I guess it is perfectly
> > > reasonable to expect that DD, being in the role of sponsor, is
> > > responsible for the package quality and further maintenance. Sponsors
> > > are full-fledged DDs, and trying to claim that they are not
> > > responsible, or are somehow less responsible than any other
> > > non-sponsoring DDs, for the uploads they have done, is obviously plain
> > > wrong.
> > 
> > You avoided my question, it seems: What does "Maintainer:" mean, then?
> 
> What does "Uploaders:" field mean?

You still avoid my question: What does "Maintainer:" mean?


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