-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 10:43 AM, Chia Hung wrote: > I have one question regarding the term "maintainer". Is the maintainer > of a > particular package the chief person responsible for the > development/porting > of that package? Are there any other people involved too (besides us > dummies > using them)?
the maintainer of a package is usually the person who ported it or packaged it for fink. they are responsible for updating it if a new version comes out or a bug is found. We do, however, help each other a lot, especially if the person if not a programmer (many of us are not :-) ) HTH, - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt ID: 0xA2ABC070 Fingerprint: 26B0 BA6B A409 FA83 42B3 1688 FBF9 8232 A2AB C070 ======================================================== Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQE9rFDo+/mCMqKrwHARAqhHAKDcQBb6bvddcj/smaJwBbcNq7T4/QCeNscy aLkUsgcSfEwK1LNnXbRe5xM= =SAIu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
