Re: bug tracking, especially openoffice

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

NN_il_Confusionario on 14/04/08 11:55, wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:27:02AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > NN_il_Confusionario on 13/04/08 17:11, wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 01:16:37PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464402
> > >  Tags: moreinfo;
> > I don't see how you know this person is the maintainer. Are you just 
> > assuming?
>
> I assumed that the tag moreinfo was set by a maintainer of the debian
> package (I am not able to see any other reasonable possibility).
>
> Also, check the link in that page: http://people.debian.org/~rene/
>
> In any case,
>
>  apt-cache show openoffice.org|grep ^Maintainer
> Maintainer: Debian OpenOffice Team <debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org>
>
> Then go to the first hit in the google search
>
>    Linkname: debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org rene - Google Search
>         URL:
>   http://www.google.com/search?q=debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org+rene&btnG=Search&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1

Sorry I didn't mean to give the impression that I'm helpless. My main line of 
inquiry is actually to find out how to ascertain all this stuff myself with the 
ease that I'm used to from many other software that have web-based issue 
trackers. I guess in this case, putting that data into a field on the bug report 
is a nice-to-have for the future.