First of all you need to figure out whether the class is one that would
normally reside in a basic or full image or its one that was installed
from an external package.  If it is an external package then identify
that package and go to the SqueakMap page for that package which should
identify the author, maintainer, and possibly other developers.  Maybe
even a web page or mailing list.

If instead it is a class normally found in the basic or full images the
simple immediate answer is that you need to identify the top level
category (Squeak category that is) of the class which can be easily done
by looking that the far left pane of the browser and seeing the selected
category if you are looking at the desired class.  If the name contains
a hyphen take the part to the left of the hyphen.  Then go to

http://www.squeak.org/Community/Teams/

and search the page or look through the descriptions for the category
name.  If you don't find it then as of this time there is no team for
that class/package specifically so responsibility for it falls back on
the release team who is to my knowledge already doing their best to
monitor Mantis and so you will just have to be patient.  If you do find
it then you have some names as well as probably a mailing list address
there.

For example if you were to search the page for 'Morphic' you would find 

Morphic Stewards

Maintaining the Morphic, MorphicExtras, EToys, FlexibleVocabularies,
Nebraska, and StarSqueak categories of classes in the Basic Squeak Image

Coordinator: Doug Way

Team Leader: Juan Vuletich

Mailing list:  

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/morphic

Ken


On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 15:16 -0800, Peace Jerome wrote:
> An important bug fix is now ready to be published into
> squeak.
> 
> The morphic team has looked at it and the hitch is
> that not all of the fix fits into morphic.
> 
> Because I want to control where a popup menu pops up I
> had to make two almost trivial extentions to
> CustomMenu. 
> 
> So how do I find the team leader who does the signing
> off on that?
> 
> -----
> 
> The general problem is that as a coder I will know the
> name of the class I am changing. I can find the name
> of the package asking for a browser. After that I am
> stuck.
> 
> How do I find the team the package belongs to? 
> 
> Yes I know this is doable easily for salient packages.
> But not all named packages have obvious teams. This is
> a confusion that begs to be resolved.
> 
> My patron hates for me to  spent time debugging
> beauracracy when he'd rather I be debugging code. 
> 
> ------
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Yours in service, -- Jerome Peace
> 
> 
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