On 10/17/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
