[Fedora-packaging] Etiquette for contacting a package maintainer?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 25 02:27:23 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 22:19 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 21:48 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > > it would mean a namespace conflict b/t people whose username is 'yum'
> > > and the package.
> > > 
> > > probably best to have packagename at packages.fedoraproject.org
> > 
> > Yep. Seems like a good idea.
> 
> Or <pkg>-owner/<pkg>-maintainers. Something unlikely to have
> a username collision.
> 

one hang up I realized: the owner for a package under EL5 may not
necessarily equal the owner under F9.

should it just go to all maintainers/co-maintainers on every release?


-sv





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