The author/maintainer distinction problem (and PEP 621)

[dustin (Dustin Ingram)]

@brettcannon

@dustin

Perhaps this should just become contact instead?

I think that depends on the opinion of the PyPI maintainers and whether they want to update PyPI to reflect this.

Renaming it to contact totally fits my worldview of what the Author / Maintainers fields are traditionally used for, so I’m game for that more neutral wording while still populating Author in the core metadata.

Giving this some more thought, I don’t think Author/Author-Email/Maintainer/Maintainer-Email map well to something like “Contact” (even if that is their primary use), and I think like @pganssle suggests, we probably need a new metadata version to remedy this instead.