API does not show maintainers

[shahryarjb]

Hi, when I want to get package information and releases data, I can not use maintainers because it is always an empty list, although this metadata exists in a package mix file.

For example:

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/mix.exs#L105

maintainers: ["Chris McCord", "José Valim", "Gary Rennie", "Jason Stiebs"],

but when I get it from the API

"meta": {
    "description": "Productive. Reliable. Fast. A productive web framework that\ndoes not compromise speed or maintainability.",
    "licenses": [
        "MIT"
    ],
    "links": {
        "GitHub": "https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix"
    },
    "maintainers": []
}

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Example API https://hex.pm/api/packages/phoenix

Thank you

[wojtekmach]

Hi, thank you for the report. The field is always empty because it is deprecated, see this for more information: #681 (comment).