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

Fri Mar 4 19:15:06 CET 2011

Op vrijdag 04 maart 2011 19:01:09 schreef nicolas vigier:
+> On Fri, 04 Mar 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+> > 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?
+> 
+> Who said submit has an effect on changelog ? Why are you talking about
+> submit ?
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+to be honest, i reread this thread a few times, and i have no idea... i 
+clarified my point, but i donno why i was making such a point in the first 
+place, cause it doesn't seem to make any sense...
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