discuss: Author / Maintainer - how to distinguish?
Subject:
Re: Author / Maintainer - how to distinguish?
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
3 May 2001 22:43:53 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105031433400.26070-100000@crazypenguins.commandprompt.com>
Hello,
I would just give him second billing. In other words your the first
author, he is the second author.
On Thu, 3 May 2001, 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.
>
>Ideas?
>
>Regards,
>
>rolek
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