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

Mon Mar 7 13:53:17 CET 2011

On 5 March 2011 10:41, Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:
+> 1)What to use in the From tag in the mail to the changelog list.
+>
+> Mandriva: From: Full Name <devel at mandriva...>
+> Mageia:   From: Mageia Team <buildsystem-daemon at mageia....>
+>
+> IMHO, it is beneficial to have the "name" of the submitter of the package in
+> the From tag, you can easily, from just looking at the list of mails in a
+> folder, see what packages were updated, and if they are packages you maintain,
+> who submitted them, without even having to open the mail. Having a generic
+> static text here is of no benefit ...
+
+Indeef I find usefull to know who submit what directly.
+If I've short time to review uploads, I can focus my time on what
+I think should be reviewed.
+Then I mail the packager about stuff.
+If it's generic enough, I cc: the packaging ml so that everybody can benefits.
+
+> Proposal 1.1:
+> From: $user{cn} <packages at mageia.org>
+> e.g.
+> From: Buchan Milne <packages at mageia.org>
+>
+> If we want to rather try and build teams who work on specific groups of
+> packages, it may be better to have use:
+>
+> Proposal 1.2:
+> From: $user{cn} <%name at packages.mageia.org>
+> e.g.
+> From: Buchan Milne <openldap at packages.mageia.org>
+
+My preference: 1.2 or 1.1
+
+> 3)What to use in the %changelog section of the spec file
+(...)
+> Proposal 3.1:
+> $user{cn} <$user{uid}> %version-%release
+> e.g.
+> Buchan Milne <buchan> 3.5.7-1mga
+>
+> Porposal 3.2:
+> $user{cn} <$user{mail}> %version-%release
+> e.g.
+> Buchan Milne <bgmilne at mageia.>
+
+My preference: 3.2 so that we can efficiently perform peer review.
+