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

Fri Mar 4 09:05:02 CET 2011

On Thursday, 3 March 2011 22:43:25 Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+
+
+> I think we need to have a name and email address. however, some options:
+> 
+> 
+> A. possibly "cn" could be editable in identity
+
+Please stop referring to possibilities that exist as if they don't ... it is 
+depressing that people keep assuming things don't work, when one has put 
+effort into making them work ...
+
+(IOW, if users should *not* be able to edit cn, then there is one 
+configuration entry to edit)
+
+> ==> this will allow people to fill in what they want, be it full name,
+> nickname, or full name AND nickname
+> 
+> cn could then be used as the name field
+
+That is the current situation, at least in bugzilla, and should be in forum.
+
+> B. an email address is required IMHO, and preferably a @mageia.org email
+> address
+> 
+> however, if people wouldn't want to have their email address listed, an
+> extra option is this:
+> 
+> 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)
+
+/me notes that this might be easier done in LDAP, as a postfix alias map. 
+Which begs the question ... should the maintainer "database" be in LDAP 
+instead?
+
+(BTW., I was thinking along the lines of package groups, with multi-valued 
+attribute for package name and maintainer. e.g.:
+
+dn: cn=firefoxteam,ou=Packages,dc=mageia,dc=org
+objectClass: mageiaPackageGroup
+cn: firefox-team
+mail: firefox at packages.mageia.org
+mageiaPackage: firefox
+mageiaPackage: firefox-en_gb
+mageiaPackage: firefox-ext-firebug
+....
+mageiaMaintainer: foo at mageia.org
+mageiaMaintainer: bar at mageia.org
+owner: uid=xxx,ou=People,dc=mageia,dc=org
+
+> D. if people really want to use their own personal email address, perhaps
+> one can be opted-in to use that one. (but this should be decided in a
+> policy and be strict on it either YES/NO)
+
+Per-user options are difficult to administer, I would prefer the same 
+behaviour for everyone, and the choice to provide data at the user's 
+discretion. E.g., the current situation, where contributors are requested to 
+provide real givenName,sn, but are free to use whatever cn they prefer, and 
+all external tools use cn. sn and givenName are only used for account/identity 
+validation, legal requirements etc. and all uses of the data must respect 
+privacy policy.
+
+> personally, i like:
+> A, B, C, but vote NO for D.
+> 
+> i would like to use "AL13N <alien at mageia.org>" being used. my real name is
+> kind of not linked the the email address.
+
+Well, I haven't seen any authoritative statement on whether all contributors 
+will have @mageia.org aliases, and some work needs to be done for this if it 
+will be provided.
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+