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Last is not always good +because personal mails are not always welcome and the risk some +problems/discussions that remain private goes lost is high. +I always strongly recomend people who contacts me to go on +talking following the right ways (mailing list, bugzilla, etc), because +there I'm not alone (and they as well). + +Different thing is for occasional contributions, they can decide if they want +to be added or not, since they're not commiting anything, the maintainers +can add or not contributors' information as they want. +><i> The cons (as in "no, one should be free not to") +</I>><i> - public email addresses get spammed +</I>Yes, but a mageia alias, could be a partial solution. If one doesn't +want to contribute any more, his/her real address is not known. + +><i> - personal preferences to not reveal one's name +</I>Again are we talking about occasional contribution? if not i can't figure +to go on irc and don't know who contacting for some issues... + +><i> - there are situations where anonymity is a requirement or "nice to +</I>><i> have" (from a personal or corporate point of view) +</I>For corporate, an alias could be accepted (if we're talking about a future +mageia corporate) like kde-team or similar. But again for fixed contributions +i can't get it, sorry. + +><i> - it will encourage people to contact directly contributors instead +</I>><i> of using other expected channels +</I>As said we're talking about Open source community... Open not closed, +so there's nothing wrong. The hope is there's no crazy criminals that +wants to terminate anyone :) + +In my personal experience i've been contacted a lot of time and answered +when i could (my real life does not let me a lot of free time), and +who contacted me has always understood that. Moreover if I could not +have contacted some authors... well that is another story :) + +Just my 2€ cents, + Angelo +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: not available +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 198 bytes +Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20110304/b45687be/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002990.html">[Mageia-dev] Alpha2 iso content +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002957.html">[Mageia-dev] KDE Upgrade on the way +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2953">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2953">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2953">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2953">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |