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

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

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On 12/01/2015 06:35 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:

> All the contributors do get attribution in the copyright notice at
> the top of each file, although that information is not linked to
> their actual contributions except through git.

If they feel their contribution is significant enough to even warrant
an entry there.

[snip]

> Plus I can see some "political" issues in the future where people
> lay claim to parts of the code base and justify it based on their
> name being in the packager field. Personally, I think we should
> avoid creating these sorts of bureaucracies if its not necessary.

Sure, there's a tradeoff there. If the intended semantics are
communicated clearly I don't see that problem.

> I noticed that the NixOS github has a "mention-bot" that 
> automatically contacts people based on `git blame` if their old
> code is subject to a pull request. You can see it in action here: 
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/11329
> 
> I think we should let the git repository be the single source of
> truth for figuring out who is responsible for the code. If
> necessary, we can build some automation around the git repo.

Yeah, I like the nixos workflow quite a bit. github is a pretty nice
tool, but sadly nonfree, thus a machina non grata for guix. The nixos
devs actively encourage people to add themselves to the maintainer
fields btw..

Flo



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