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proposal: add "packagers" field (list of strings (names)) to package def


From: Florian Paul Schmidt
Subject: proposal: add "packagers" field (list of strings (names)) to package definition
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 09:12:12 +0100
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...and encourage its use. The intended semantics is to list people
that have contributed to the packaging effort. The motivation behind
this proposal is that in many free software projects attribution can
be a major source of motivation to get people involved. Having the
packagers be first class citizens in the package definitions (as
opposed to the information being only implicitly available through
e.g. "git blame") would allow things like "guix package" or the
package list on the website to display the contributor's names.

And if in a standard format containing additional info like an email
address then bug reports for a package might even get CC'ed
automatically to the contributors (though this might have some privacy
implications - but providing an email address or even any entry in the
packagers field is purely opt-in).

Note that the (largely unused) maintainer field [1] plays a slightly
different role - judging purely from its name, since it's not too well
documented: A maintainer has responsibilities beyond the role of a
contributor.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#package-Reference

WDYT?

Regards,
Flo


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