Name and e-mail address of package maintainers

[Rahul Sundaram]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 10/17/06, Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> 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.

Rahul