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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] Contributors using real name/working email? or not? or maybe?</H1>
+ <B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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+ <I>Thu Mar 3 21:43:25 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>Op donderdag 03 maart 2011 15:00:01 schreef Romain d'Alverny:
+&gt;<i> Hi there,
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> in the past few days/hours, on sysadmin list has a discussion arisen
+</I>&gt;<i> about publishing packager email into commit/change log; you can check
+</I>&gt;<i> the whole thread, here are three starting points of it:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> * <A HREF="https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002946.html">https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002946.html</A>
+</I>&gt;<i> * <A HREF="https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002952.html">https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002952.html</A>
+</I>&gt;<i> * <A HREF="https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002955.html">https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002955.html</A>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> And you would perhaps like to read the whole thread; not everyone
+</I>&gt;<i> agrees there. The discussion slipped to whether:
+</I>&gt;<i> * packagers/contributors [sh|w]ould use &amp; publish their real name (as
+</I>&gt;<i> registered in identity),
+</I>&gt;<i> * packagers/contributors [sh|w]ould publish their contact email (same),
+</I>&gt;<i> * in their contributions to the project (here, in the changelog),
+</I>&gt;<i> * if it should be strictly enforced or not, and why.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> for practical or personal reasons. It's a general, pretty key matter,
+</I>&gt;<i> it's been rightly suggested to raise the point here, so here it is.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> We can't enforce anything unless we decide on this first and this
+</I>&gt;<i> thread is here to gather views. What we (Council) will decide later on
+</I>&gt;<i> about this depends on the outcomes of the discussion (and if we ever
+</I>&gt;<i> decide or not btw). It will be part of the project's privacy policy.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> And please try to keep this discussion to the point, focused and
+</I>&gt;<i> civilized; state your views, don't infer on others' ones, stay cool.
+</I>&gt;<i> Or your point will become shallow and the discussion will be wasted.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> The points to decide here are:
+</I>&gt;<i> a) should a contributor provide a public email address, to be used in
+</I>&gt;<i> changelogs, commits and everywhere her contribution to the project
+</I>&gt;<i> needs an id or contact id? (for instance changelog, commit, document
+</I>&gt;<i> authoring)
+</I>&gt;<i> b) should a contributor provide a real name for the same goals? or is
+</I>&gt;<i> a fake name/alias ok, as long as there are people that do know/meet
+</I>&gt;<i> the person?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I won't comment on pros and cons below (not exclusive of others), but
+</I>&gt;<i> those were raised in the discussion before:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> The pros (as in &quot;yes one should&quot;):
+</I>&gt;<i> - that is the common way used in MDV and other major distributions
+</I>&gt;<i> - (email or name) it identifies the author of a change to the project/code
+</I>&gt;<i> - (email) it helps identifying &amp; contacting directly someone in the
+</I>&gt;<i> project (peer review or any ad hoc matter)
+</I>&gt;<i> - (email &amp; name) it helps building confidence among contributors and
+</I>&gt;<i> from the outside
+</I>&gt;<i> - (name) it encourages people to adopt a consistent behaviour
+</I>&gt;<i> - (email &amp; name) it builds one's contributions list for
+</I>&gt;<i> future/outside reference
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> The cons (as in &quot;no, one should be free not to&quot;)
+</I>&gt;<i> - public email addresses get spammed
+</I>&gt;<i> - personal preferences to not reveal one's name
+</I>&gt;<i> - there are situations where anonymity is a requirement or &quot;nice to
+</I>&gt;<i> have&quot; (from a personal or corporate point of view)
+</I>&gt;<i> - it will encourage people to contact directly contributors instead
+</I>&gt;<i> of using other expected channels
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Note that one may use a fake name/identity anyway to stay anonymous
+</I>&gt;<i> (but unless one already has a network of trust within a group, she
+</I>&gt;<i> would not have a past public record to help building her new
+</I>&gt;<i> reputation).
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> What is at stake is the accountability for each contributor, hence for
+</I>&gt;<i> the whole project. What will matter is what one does and how.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> And again, let's have this point discussed in a cool, informative,
+</I>&gt;<i> constructive and efficient way, please.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Cheers,
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Romain
+</I>
+I think we need to have a name and email address. however, some options:
+
+
+A. possibly &quot;cn&quot; could be editable in identity
+==&gt; this will allow people to fill in what they want, be it full name,
+nickname, or full name AND nickname
+
+cn could then be used as the name field
+
+
+B. an email address is required IMHO, and preferably a @mageia.org email
+address
+
+however, if people wouldn't want to have their email address listed, an extra
+option is this:
+
+C. how about we make &lt;packagename&gt;@packages.mageia.org, which could use the
+maintainers database to forward the email to maintainers (in case of more)
+(this could also be a packagegroup. eg: <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">firefox at packages.mageia.org</A> could refer
+to maintainers of firefox, xulrunner, etc...) (this option might just be too
+complex)
+
+D. if people really want to use their own personal email address, perhaps one
+can be opted-in to use that one. (but this should be decided in a policy and
+be strict on it either YES/NO)
+
+
+personally, i like:
+A, B, C, but vote NO for D.
+
+i would like to use &quot;AL13N &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">alien at mageia.org</A>&gt;&quot; being used. my real name is
+kind of not linked the the email address.
+
+</PRE>
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