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

Fri Mar 4 19:52:27 CET 2011

On Fri, 04 Mar 2011, 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.
+> 
+> re-trying to answer more or less coherent:
+> 
+> having "cn" attribute for changelog would be best, imho, but it could be 
+> coupled with the mageia email of the packages(packagegroup). (if that is 
+> wanted, or even a package email could be made if the person in question 
+> wouldn't want to have their own email address on it).
+
+Using a packagegroup email in changelog doesn't make sense at all,
+changelog is supposed to list the people who made changes, not the
+maintainer of the package. The complaint against using packager email
+in changelog was that "it encourages users to contact packagers directly
+via private email rather than going through the proper support channels".
+And using a packagegroup email redirected to maintainer doesn't solve
+that.
+
+So you're proposing a solution that doesn't fix the problem.
+
+Actually I don't remember receiving any email from users who found my
+email in a rpm changelog. And if that happens, answering with the URL of
+bugzilla does not take so much time. So I don't think that's a problem.
+
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