[Mageia-dev] Mail aliases

Thu Apr 21 14:57:44 CEST 2011

H,
+
+as you may have followed latest council meeting, people in the various
+teams ( see what team below ) can now use aliases @mageia.org. 
+
+The alias is your login @ mageia.org, forwarded to the email in ldap, as
+entered in identity. Exact details can be found in sysadmin svn, but
+that use simply ldap mail attribute ( for now ).
+
+Spamassassin and greylisting have been deployed to be as spam free as
+possible, with the downside of being too protective maybe.
+
+Yet, the setup is not considered complete.
+The issues have been two fold : 
+- organizational
+- technical
+
+On the organizational level, we need for each team to have a list of
+member, and know who in the team can receive the aliases. Then, this
+must be entered in the ldap by a sysadmin ( long term plan are to
+delegate this but in the meantime, someone has to do it ).
+
+This also mean that team that are quite "informal" need some kind of
+formalisation before having aliases. IE a process to decide who is in
+the team, how to enter it, and so on.
+
+So far, the team that have aliases as they were fully specified in ldap
+are :
+- packagers
+- sysadmins
+
+Web developers are expected to follow soon in 1 or 2 weeks ( if I am not
+wrong, rda can correct me ), as well as i18n ( iirc, this is to be
+discussed in the meeting tonight ). 
+
+For the other teams, we need to have that informations before doing
+anything, so do not fear, we do not plan to keep aliases just for the
+technical groups, everybody count.
+
+To get back on packagers ( as this is the goal of posting here ),
+aliases is linked to submit privileges. So apprentices do not have the
+aliases, and that should be a motivation to finish the work.
+
+I would also remind that when you when you use the email to post
+somewhere, you are one of the many public face of the project, so do not
+forget it.
+
+On the technical level, several people asked me "can I use the aliases
+on $foo", with foo being : 
+- bugzilla, 
+- mailling list,
+- etc.
+
+Short answer : you can try and report. 
+Long answer : it depends and will maybe be difficult.
+
+You can use it outside of mageia.org infrastructure without problem.  
+
+You can use it on the ml, if they are on mailman ( ie, all @mageia.org
+ml ). You need to resubscribe. 
+
+You cannot use it to log on anything for now, as this is either your
+real email or your login. I would be in favor of trying to fix this, but
+this may be long and hard.
+
+The main issues will likely be bugzilla, as it use the real email from
+ldap internally ( switching it should not be hard but requires work  ),
+and sympa ( as sympa also use internally the email from ldap, not the
+login ). 
+
+We are aware of the various problem ( or at least, a subset of admins,
+in some period of time are aware of a subset of the problems ) and plan
+to solve them, but that may not be simple, so if you feel you can help,
+the configuration are on svn, and we are open to suggestion. 
+
+First step would be to make a full audit of what need to be done, and
+later how it can be done.
+
+If you have any issues, do not hesitate to open a bug for that, or ask
+question on the usual channel, or here.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+