Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

["Frank Lin PIAT" <fpiat@klabs.be>]

Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Jonathan Wiltshire said:
>> The debian-l10n-english team, and perhaps others, use this domain to
>> keep the maintainer in the loop during Smith English-language reviews
>> and the subsequent translations.
>
> This one time, at band camp, Adeodato Simó said:
>> I use it all the time when eg. reassigning a bug (reassign mails are
>> supposed to be CC'ed to the destination maintainers), rather than go up
>> and look who's listed as maintainer and uploader and CC them all.
>
> These are the sort of helpful answers that make it clear that people do
> at least sporadically use the service.  I didn't see anything useful in
> the week of logs I reviewed, but activity like that described above is
> probably reasonably 'spiky' and I'm not surprised I missed it.

Keep in mind that it's the advertized way to get in touch with package
maintainers at :

http://www.debian.org
 -> Contacts
  -> Reporting problems in Debian packages
   -> "If you simply want to communicate with the maintainer of a Debian
       package, [..] <package name>@p.d.o

Regards,

Franklin