[Distutils] Simplify 426: Deprecate Author-email and Maintainer-email

[Donald Stufft]

On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:35 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:

> To reach the consensus in this discussion, I guess we all agree that roles in software projects may differ greatly. Even the 4 user stories listed are not enough to give proper credits to all people involved. I guess we can reach consensus stating that maintainers of packages in Python world are not common - authors or contributors package stuff themselves. PyPI is not Linux distribution where package maintainers play a significant and different role. So the "author"+ and "contributor"* fields seem to be reasonable minimum core.
> 
> Do we all agree on that minimum as the first step?

An author (or authors) and contributors field would be very suitable.

> 
> Now about the contents. Only Lennart expressed opinion that separate email may be useful because it forces people to supply this email. If emails were obligatory, we could consider this point, but my IMO is that this it is not an reason to increase complexity of the system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0 
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> I like the ability to supply URL in the Author/Contributor field. It can be used to link to the project specific way of listing people involved (including GitHub pages). But for now I'd not formalize it and considered as an optional feature. Just listed somewhere. I'd like not to formalize the contents of this field at all leaving the recommendation to supply content in "name[ email][, optional stuff]" format. Can we reach a consensus on that?

I like how Node.js packages handled this. The canonical form is {"name": "Donald Stufft", "email": "donald at stufft.io", "url": "http://github.com/dstufft/"} (and what I think the internal representation should be), but the tooling understands strings like "Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> (http://github.com/dstufft/)". And both the email and url data is optional.

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> anatoly t. 


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