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

Mon Mar 7 14:13:06 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 07/03/11 12:53 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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.
+
+
++1 on both TV's comments. Email addresses are the new "username" in
+today's VCSs anyway....
+
+Col
+
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+
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