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

Sat Mar 5 13:47:32 CET 2011

Op vrijdag 04 maart 2011 09:05:02 schreef Buchan Milne:
+> 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 ...
+
+I'm sorry, i myself have done a few patches to catdap, i know it's there, 
+
+except, i heard that cn was planned to be used as a concatenation of givenName 
+and sn; which i could understand as a fill-in default, but not really forced.
+
+What i meant more, is to have a "display Name" thing during registration, more 
+visible.
+
+> (IOW, if users should *not* be able to edit cn, then there is one
+> configuration entry to edit)
+
+(i notice that there is no mention of successfull edit, when doing so)
+
+> > ==> 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.
+
+AFAIK, i think from reading founders meetings, this is planned to be rolled 
+out on a step by step basis, iirc founders/council has it, and it was planned 
+to be rolled out at least to the "recognised peers" of each team.
+