Name and e-mail address of package maintainers

[Paul Smith]

On 10/17/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> > How to find out the name and e-mail address of the maintainer of a
> >> package?
> >> >
> >> If it's a Core/Updates package, you'll need to check its changelog
> >> entries:
> >> $ rpm -q --changelog <pkg> | less
> >>
> >> If it's an Extras package, you can find it in the owners.list file [1]
> >> in CVS.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/*checkout*/owners/owners.list?root=extras
> >>
> >
> > Thanks, Peter and Ronald. I wanted to contact the maintainer of R to
> > remind him that R version 2.4.0 was released two weeks ago.
>
> You should use that using bugzilla rather than mail maintainers.
> Bugzilla reports are public, query able, trackable etc.

OK, Rahul, I will do so in the future. I just thought that a simple
e-mail would remind the maintainer. And, by the way, he was very kind
and the update is pushed.

Paul