maintainer

4 definitions found

maintainer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Maintainer \Main*tain"er\, n.
     One who maintains.
     [1913 Webster]

maintainer - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  maintainer
      n 1: someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of
           tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy"
           [syn: upholder, maintainer, sustainer]

maintainer - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  maintainer
  
     <software> The person responsible for coordinating changes to
     a package of software and arranging the distribution of
     updates.  The term usually applies only to free software
     where the maintainer (often the author) is doing it as a free
     public service.
  
     (2001-01-27)
  

  maintainer
  
         <Debian> A member of the Debian project who looks
         after a Debian package.