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

Fri Mar 4 18:58:31 CET 2011

Op vrijdag 04 maart 2011 05:50:23 schreef Anssi Hannula:
+> 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.
+
+afaik changelog is compiled from svn commit messages? i don't really 
+understand how the submit could have an effect on changelog?
+