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

Sat Mar 5 02:47:22 CET 2011

nicolas vigier a écrit :
+>
+> 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.
+
+Makes sense.
+Like wobo suggested in another post, it is most likely a fellow packager 
+or developer who would be making the contact, wanting to better 
+understand the details/rationelle of the change.
+
+So I would probably like to put : pseudo + pseudo at mageia.org
+(where pseudo is my login)
+
+-- 
+André
+