Re: in search for XML-RPC developers/maintainers contact

Joe Stump wrote: >> 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 is referring to the addition of <active> to the maintainers list, so that one can do: <lead> <name>Joe Original Author</name> <user>notpearuser</user> <email>notpearuser@example.com</email> <active>no</active> </lead> Greg