Bug#581011: Maintainer/Uploaders nomenclature
> 1) The "Maintainer" field can contain only ONE contributor, whereas
> there may be several to the package.
> 2) The "Uploaders" field can contain several people, whereas -
> technically - there can be only one uploader.
You see this term to limited to the actual upload happening.
Uploaders are those people, that in addition to Maintainer: are allowed
to upload the package during the package lifetime. Not just for one
upload.
> Furthermore, having the "Uploaders" field is redundant anyhow, since
> the actual DD/DM who uploaded can be found from his/her signature.
Only for the one upload.
> "Uploaders" might also just be the wrong description.
Oh yes, its entirely wrong.
> Either it should be called "Contributors", since it often contains the
> actual contributors (that's even what policy says) and - sometimes -
> even not the actual uploader.
Not enough benefit to change it now.
> In addition to point 2) above, it might as well be dropped, if
> "Maintainer" was allowed to contain several people. Sometimes it
> simply contains a group anyhow (like the PHP people at alioth and
> such). Since neither the Maintainer nor Uploaders field actually
> needs to contain any DD/DM all this becomes even more strange.
I am pretty much against changing the definition of the maintainer
field. One primary point of contact, and one only. Be that a mailing
list (but then you need one human in uploaders) or a person, but its one
main contact in case everything else fails.
--
bye, Joerg
<HE> Joerg knuddeln ist wie mit Skorpionen schlafen.
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