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

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Apr 25 02:41:50 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 22:27 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 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?

Perhaps just the rawhide owners?

~spot




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