Maintainer

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  maintainer
       
           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)