Stefan Monnier writes: >>> Indeed, we may want to revisit this in the future, but in any case, it's >>> useful to redirect report to the normal Emacs address if the claimed >>> maintainer is not the maintainer any more: for those problems, we don't >>> have any reason to wait. > >> Should I send out emails to the package maintainers in question and ask >> them? I'm asking because I wound not send such email on behalf of the >> Emacs developers without the explicit permission of this list. > > Yes, please do. > >> Based on the answers (or lack thereof), I could then prepare a patch-set >> which changes the appropriate addresses in their corresponding packages. > > That would be great, > > For those who don't respond, you may want to add a note about "didn't > respond when contacted " at the beginning of the file, next to the > maintainer's name. Sorry for the delay in getting back on this, but I emailed everyone at least twice, and allowed ample response time. At the bottom this mail are two small patches for email addresses which are outright broken, or simply don't exist anymore. I emailed Jay Belanger twice (on 17/3/2008 and 31/3/2008) and got no answer, I know that he is active on this list. So Jay, please drop me a line if you read this. The maintainers of the following files would be happy to receive bug reports via the bug tracking system, once it's up and running: artist.el calc-misc.el viper*.el ediff*.el vhdl-mode.el vera-mode.el verilog-mode.el The maintainer of ps-mode.el said: "Yes, sure. But only if those e-mails have a link to the bug report system, where I can cancel these e-mails if I want to." The maintainer of cmacexp.el said: "I do not use cmacexp.el any more, but yes, I would like to receive bug reports. However, I would prefer not to be the only responsible person for those bugs." 2008-04-12 Yoni Rabkin * hilit19.el: Abandoned file, changed the maintainer to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org * simple.el: Abandoned file, changed the maintainer to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org