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

Fri Mar 4 06:04:46 CET 2011

+
+Quote: Anssi Hannula wrote on Fri, 04 March 2011 05:47
+>
+> On 03.03.2011 16:00, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> >  - public email addresses get spammed
+> 
+> I don't consider this a big issue, the email addresses are readable
+> from
+> mailing lists etc. in any case.
+
+True but many people (including myself) use different email addresses for
+each purpose, which currently wouldn't be possible if the single email
+address in the mageia-identity db is used for everything. Therefore my
+suggestion would be:
+
+- assign every packager a <uid>@mageia.org forwarding address
+
+- add a second email address field in LDAP and populate it by default with
+the primary email address
+
+- use this second email address as forwarding address for <uid>@mageia.org
+
+- make the secondary email address field user editable in the
+mageia-identity web interface
+
+- use the @mageia.org address in the changelog and everywhere else, were
+packager emails are displayed pubblically
+
+Using @mageia.org addresses is also a much better way (than enforcing
+'real' display names) to create trust with users since it shows that the
+packager is an official mageia packager, rather than some third part
+contributor.
+
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