RE: Contacting authors
On 07-Oct-98 Martin Schulze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> tonight I was thinking about implementing @authors.debian.org which
> would enable a way for us to get in touch with the upstream authors of
> some piece of software without the need of looking into the copyright
> file or digging in the source if the maintainer forgot to add the
> authors email into that file.
>
> What do you think about it?
This sounds good in theory. However numerous pieces of software have no
defined author. Enlightenment has two, which should be listed?
How about making the field optional, and if it is not present the mail gets
forwarded to the developer?
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