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Re: [faq-maintainers] More than one maintainer?

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From: Victor Sack (sackv@uni-duesseldorf.de)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 01:56:03 CST


Nick Boalch wrote:

> The easiest solution would be to post the FAQ from one, mutual, address
> shared between the two of you.

Indeed, we'll consider doing this. Thanks! Does only the address as
such matter, e.g. <sackv@uni-duesseldorf.de>, or also the name attached
to it, e.g. "Victor Sack", so that the name will have to be mutual also?

> We can then list you both as maintainers
> in our records without it causing problems for our archive scripts, which
> I don't think are intelligent enough to deal with multiple maintainers.

It's a pity they aren't... :-(

Edward Reid wrote:

> The easy way is to use the FAQ server at rftm.mit.edu, which is
> mentioned in one of the news.answers documents -- ask again if you
> can't find it. Share the password, and either maintainer can send an
> update, force a posting, adjust the schedule, etc. The From information
> in the actual posting comes from what you specify in the document you
> send, *not* from the email via which you send the document, so it need
> not even be either of the maintainers' addresses.

We might do it in an emergency. I much prefer doing manual postings on
a regular basis. No need to send all those commands to the server every
time I make a small change, like wanting to post the FAQ a day later...

Victor

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