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

Fri Mar 4 19:12:13 CET 2011

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, andre999 wrote:
+
+> Frank Griffin a écrit :
+>>
+>> Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+>>> 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?
+>>>
+>>>
+>>
+>> Is it possible to have the changelog display something more unique than
+>> the group email address for ID purposes, but the email address for
+>> communication purposes ?
+>
+> Exactly.  The id part is to identify the person who did the changes. It 
+> could be the pseudo at Mageia or the real name.  (Or even a fake name, as 
+> far as I'm concerned.)
+>
+> The email adresse is for contact for support, and I find the 
+> <packagename>@packages.mageia.org idea elegant as well.
+
+The email address in the changelog is not a contact for support. It's
+the contact of the person who did the change. So for me it does not make
+sense to use something else than the email of the person who did the
+change, something like login at mageia.org.
+
+