If I understand this correctly authors of original code do not get
appreciation of their work on PEAR web-pages if they are not lead
developers. Also docblocks contain only strings @author instead of
@lead or @maintainer, so even if the person didn't written the code
and just incorporates patches (which can be provided, BTW, by other
people in most cases). I.e. docblocks make maintainers and lead
developers the same as authors, but without writing too much. Lead
and maintainer names are on the site, but authors can easily be
forgotten.
Is that ok?
I can't speak for other developers, but what I did with Net_Curl when I took it over was to put my name below the two past maintainers in the main docblock. The list in package.xml is <maintainers></maintainers> not <authors></authors> so I removed them (as they are no longer maintaining Net_Curl), however, they are still in the code as being others of Net_Curl.
Also, I believe, the 2.0 version of package.xml provides some relief for such problems.
--Joe
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