Proper way to contact a package maintainer?

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 16:14:50 UTC 2010


On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:01:57 +0000, Frank wrote:

> On 09/11/10 15:44, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1. I've googled[1] for an authoritative place to find out who
> > maintains what package but I can't seem to find a consistent source.
> > What's the proper way to find out who maintains a package?
> >
> 
> owner-foo at fp.o
> 
> 
> where foo is the package you are talking about.

That's backwards, isn't it?

  PACKAGE-owner at fp.o

where PACKAGE is the src.rpm package name. Further,

  http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/PACKAGE

is one convenient way to display the package's list of open
bugs, the package's list of maintainers, a direct link into bugzilla,
and more stuff.


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