[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? Seems to me that for sponsored packages the Maintainer field is a joke! Seems to me that for sponsored packages we need access to ftp logfiles to resolve who is responsible for maintaining the package. I find both of those plain wrong. Possibly obviously and maybe even hilariously simple, but wrong nonetheless. - Jonas Who appreciate non-DM contributions, just not common hinting of them -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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