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BitBake User Manual for additional information on tasks and
dependencies.
+ :term:`RECIPE_MAINTAINER`
+ This variable defines the name and e-mail address of the maintainer of a
+ recipe. Such information can be used by human users submitted changes,
+ and by automated tools to send notifications, for example about
+ vulnerabilities or source updates.
+
+ The variable can be defined in a global distribution :oe_git:`maintainers.inc
+ </openembedded-core/tree/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc>` file::
+
+ meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc:RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-sysvinit = "Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>"
+
+ It can also be directly defined in a recipe,
+ for example in the ``libgpiod`` one::
+
+ RECIPE_MAINTAINER = "Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>"
+
:term:`RECIPE_NO_UPDATE_REASON`
If a recipe should not be replaced by a more recent upstream version,
putting the reason why in this variable in a recipe allows