Am Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:59:15 +0200 schrieb PyroPeter <abi1789@googlemail.com>:
Commenting on a package should send an e-mail to the maintainer, so, in my opinion, sending a private e-mail is redundant. Adding a comment also has the advantage of being publicly visible.
Regards, PyroPeter
Generally you are right. But there are cases in which the maintainer hasn't activated the "Notify" button (in the past it wasn't activated by default) or didn't update his AUR user profile when he changed his e-mail address. So the maintainer should, of course, first be contacted by adding an AUR comment. But if he doesn't reply, I think it should be tried by sending a private e-mail to his e-mail address in his profile and in the PKGBUILD. It happened once that a maintainer didn't respond to my comment and neither to my private e-mail I sent to his address in his user profile. Then I looked at the PKGBUILD, found another e-mail address, contacted him again and got a response pretty fast. Well, that's not the usual case and usually shouldn't happen. And one could argue that it's his own fault. Heiko