discuss: Maintainer Tag?
Subject:
Re: Maintainer Tag?
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
24 Jul 2001 15:14:41 -0000
Message-Id: <20010724080445.A218@lafn.org>
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:24:09AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On 17 Jul 2001 12:48:25 -0300, Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho wrote:
> >
There are other cases too where under the author tag one mentions the
original authors after the current author. So one should list first
the current maintainer and then the other authors. In the case of
multiple authors, they are normally listed under the same author tag
so there will sometimes be multiple names under this tag.
So I'm not convinced that we need a maintainer tag since there still
may be multiple names under the author tag.
> > 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 elaborate
> > 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 written 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 accommodate situations where the
> maintainer is just the contact person among a group of authors.
>
> --
> Florin Andrei
>
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David Lawyer
