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

Thu Mar 3 21:43:25 CET 2011

Op donderdag 03 maart 2011 15:00:01 schreef Romain d'Alverny:
+> Hi there,
+> 
+> in the past few days/hours, on sysadmin list has a discussion arisen
+> about publishing packager email into commit/change log; you can check
+> the whole thread, here are three starting points of it:
+> 
+>  * https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002946.html
+>  * https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002952.html
+>  * https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-March/002955.html
+> 
+> And you would perhaps like to read the whole thread; not everyone
+> agrees there. The discussion slipped to whether:
+>  * packagers/contributors [sh|w]ould use & publish their real name (as
+> registered in identity),
+>  * packagers/contributors [sh|w]ould publish their contact email (same),
+>  * in their contributions to the project (here, in the changelog),
+>  * if it should be strictly enforced or not, and why.
+> 
+> for practical or personal reasons. It's a general, pretty key matter,
+> it's been rightly suggested to raise the point here, so here it is.
+> 
+> We can't enforce anything unless we decide on this first and this
+> thread is here to gather views. What we (Council) will decide later on
+> about this depends on the outcomes of the discussion (and if we ever
+> decide or not btw). It will be part of the project's privacy policy.
+> 
+> And please try to keep this discussion to the point, focused and
+> civilized; state your views, don't infer on others' ones, stay cool.
+> Or your point will become shallow and the discussion will be wasted.
+> 
+> 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 won't comment on pros and cons below (not exclusive of others), but
+> those were raised in the discussion before:
+> 
+> The pros (as in "yes one should"):
+>  - that is the common way used in MDV and other major distributions
+>  - (email or name) it identifies the author of a change to the project/code
+>  - (email) it helps identifying & contacting directly someone in the
+> project (peer review or any ad hoc matter)
+>  - (email & name) it helps building confidence among contributors and
+> from the outside
+>  - (name) it encourages people to adopt a consistent behaviour
+>  - (email & name) it builds one's contributions list for
+> future/outside reference
+> 
+> The cons (as in "no, one should be free not to")
+>  - public email addresses get spammed
+>  - personal preferences to not reveal one's name
+>  - there are situations where anonymity is a requirement or "nice to
+> have" (from a personal or corporate point of view)
+>  - it will encourage people to contact directly contributors instead
+> of using other expected channels
+> 
+> Note that one may use a fake name/identity anyway to stay anonymous
+> (but unless one already has a network of trust within a group, she
+> would not have a past public record to help building her new
+> reputation).
+> 
+> What is at stake is the accountability for each contributor, hence for
+> the whole project. What will matter is what one does and how.
+> 
+> And again, let's have this point discussed in a cool, informative,
+> constructive and efficient way, please.
+> 
+> Cheers,
+> 
+> Romain
+
+I think we need to have a name and email address. however, some options:
+
+
+A. possibly "cn" could be editable in identity
+==> 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 <packagename>@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: firefox at packages.mageia.org 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 "AL13N <alien at mageia.org>" being used. my real name is 
+kind of not linked the the email address.
+
+