<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Feb 14, 2007, at 12:17 AM, Chris Thomas wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Feb 13, 2007, at 5:17 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I really don't see a problem with listing one person as the primary maintainer.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>We have three programmers at work, but we always route contact for each project through one person.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>That person passes the word along to one of the other programmers when needed.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>That's just part of the job of the primary maintainer, in my opinion.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I agree; the primary maintainer has the responsibility to delegate support requests, and that's fine. One point of contact is simplest. Might consider calling it "contact" rather than "maintainer."</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It might be a good idea to add a separate 'authors' field -- without direct email links -- so that everyone still gets credited. Or maybe that info would be in the description. Or maybe it's just too large a can of worms.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I vote for using a single "contact".</DIV><DIV>Leave the contributors list in subversion.</DIV><DIV>Maintainer is just too loaded.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>thomas Aylott — <B>subtleGradient </B>— CrazyEgg — sixteenColors</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>