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

Sat Mar 5 17:12:23 CET 2011

On Saturday, March 05, 2011 05:47:32 am Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+> 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.
+
+I changed my mind.
+mageiaMaintainer: foo at mageia.org should be mageiaMaintainer: foo at mageia.org
+The reason is spammers now use the foo at mageia.org account. I got a spam essage 
+this morning on my "tspuhler" <tspuhler at mandriva.org> from "GIFTOSWF" 
+<info at newbabybottlesterilize.com> advertising software
+
+-- 
+Thomas
+