[Mageia-dev] Contributors using real name/working email? or not? or maybe?

Thu Mar 3 18:57:21 CET 2011

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+
+> 
+> The points to decide here are:
+>  a) should a contributor provide a public email address, to be used in
+> changelogs, commits and everywhere her contribution to the project
+> needs an id or contact id? (for instance changelog, commit, document
+> authoring)
+>  b) should a contributor provide a real name for the same goals? or is
+> a fake name/alias ok, as long as there are people that do know/meet
+> the person?
+
+I think we should require an email address, and a full name (which is
+recommended to be the real name, but not necessary).
+
+And I also think we should display the full name and the email address
+in the rpm changelog :
+ - it's easier to recognize people with their name
+ - it's better to give credit with their name and email
+ - it's easier if you need to contact the author of a package when you
+   have their email
+ - people who don't want to be contacted should not be packagers
+ - people who don't want their real name to be public can use an other
+   name
+
+And I don't think we should add an option to select whether to display
+the full name or not, because it requires a lot of work, a lot of
+software don't support it, and we probably have more useful work to do
+when there is already a simple solution available (using an other name
+instead of your real name).
+
+