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

Fri Mar 4 05:50:23 CET 2011

On 04.03.2011 00:51, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+> Op donderdag 03 maart 2011 22:58:16 schreef nicolas vigier:
+>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+>>> Op donderdag 03 maart 2011 22:31:10 schreef Romain d'Alverny:
+>>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 21:54, Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com> wrote:
+>>>>> Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+>>>>>> 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)
+>>>>>
+>>>>> That is an elegant and excellent idea.
+>>>>
+>>>> Elegant, but as in a changelog, that means the email does not
+>>>> match/identify/link to the _person_ taking the step of actually
+>>>> committing/releasing the change, but the team in charge of managing
+>>>> the package. Is that wanted?
+>>>>
+>>>> Romain
+>>>
+>>> it depends, the nickname could still be kept; and we were talking about
+>>> having multiple maintainers in the future?
+>>
+>> Except that changelog is not for listing maintainers, but the persons who
+>> did some changes.
+> 
+> but changelog is for committing, not submitting? isn't this a totally different 
+> thing?
+
+I don't understand what you mean.
+
+Changelog is a log of changes made to the package.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+