discuss: Author / Maintainer - how to distinguish?
Subject:
Re: Author / Maintainer - how to distinguish?
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
3 May 2001 13:09:15 -0000
Message-Id: <10105030902.ZM11163@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On May 3, 8:49am, David Merrill wrote:
> Subject: Re: Author / Maintainer - how to distinguish?
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:41:28PM +0200, Roel van Meer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some time ago i started writing the LDAP Implementation HOWTO. Another
> > person, Giuseppe Lo Biondo, has contributed some writings to this doc,
> > and he put his name at the top, stating him as author too. This has
been
> > about six months ago. Actually, i haven't been able to contact him
since
> > then, but i did meet him at the OSDEM in Brussels this year. SO he is
> > alive, he's just not reading his mail i guess.
> >
> > The question i have:
> > How should i state that i am the one responsible for updates and the
> > like. Should i put this in the text somewhere for people to read, or
> > should it be part of the articleinfo somehow? i could, of course, just
> > take his name out of the articleinfo and credit him in the text, but
he
> > did write a part of it, so that might be unfair.
>
> It all depends on the amount of contribution. If it was really
> significant, listing as a co-author is appropriate.
...and if co-author is not used or is inappropriate, you could use
the <othercredit> tag. Example:
<othercredit>
<firstname>Greg</firstname>
<othername>J</othername>
<surname>Ferguson</surname>
<contrib>Conversion to DocBook SGML; updated section on
foo</contrib>
</othercredit>
This goes in the <artheader> (DocBook 3.x) or <articleinfo> (Docbook 4.x)
section.
r,
Ferg
