discuss: Maintainer Tag?
Subject:
Re: Maintainer Tag?
From:
Florin Andrei ####@####.####
Date:
24 Jul 2001 07:24:22 -0000
Message-Id: <995959450.1898.83.camel@pc.home.local>
On 17 Jul 2001 12:48:25 -0300, Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho wrote:
>
> IIRC, a 'maintainer' tag was asked and refused by the DocBook TC. You
> can browse RFEs at DocBook official page, at OASIS.
>
> If you _really_ feel it's needed a new element, could you ellaborate
> some explanation on why none of the existent tags (+ classes + DSSSL
> customizations, etc.) can't be used?
I know a situation like that.
Our group is trying to write the Romanian-HOWTO. It is most likely that
i will be the "maintainer". But i will actually only write 10% of the
whole document, the rest of 90% being writen by approx 9 other people
(or so it looks like at this moment).
So, "maintainer" cannot be "the author" in our case, just "one author
among others". For our document, the most appropriate structure will be:
- one maintainer
- many people writing actual text, including the "maintainer"
Of course, the maintainer will also take care of the document for the
foreseeable future.
It should be provided a way to accomodate situations where the
maintainer is just the contact person among a group of authors.
--
Florin Andrei
