Re: manpage tools

[Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>]

Le Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:30:02PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit :
> > - If there are multiple upstream authors, it may look like that I am
> > part of their team as there is no clear separator.
> 
> Where is the problem? You can use
> 
> <author>
> 	<firstname>Charles</firstname>
> 	<surname>Plessy</surname>
> 	<email>whatever</email>
> 	<contrib>Wrote this manpage</contrib>
> </author>
> 
> The comment is a clear separator, that you are not involved in the
> upstream software. I don't understand, how this should look like you are
> involved?

Hi,

first of all, thanks a lot for the feature request. About the author list:


Paul Miller    : Wrote the main program
John Jackson   : Implemented the foo funcion in Bar.app
Joe Smith      : Did the artwork
Charles Plessy : Wrote the manpage

I just feel a bit shy to risk to suggest that I am the manpage writer
in a group of upstream developpers. But maybe if I write "Wrote the
manpage for the Debian operating system" it is more obvious that I am
not upstream.

Alternatively, having:

Upstream authors:
 Paul Miller    : Wrote the main program
 John Jackson   : Implemented the foo funcion in Bar.app
 Joe Smith      : Did the artwork

Other contributions :
 Charles Plessy : Wrote the manpage

Would be even clearer. But maybe a bit heavy ?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles