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

Fri Mar 4 19:01:09 CET 2011

On Fri, 04 Mar 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
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+> 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?
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+Who said submit has an effect on changelog ? Why are you talking about
+submit ?
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