(person) by Pakaran Mon Dec 04 2000 at 14:58:29

In the context of open source, the person in charge of a given project, generally responsible for being the central repository for bug fixes and new feature requests. A very few projects, such as FreeBSD, have no one maintainer; most, such as Linux, do.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:01:00

Main*tain"er (?), n.

One who maintains.

 

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