[Mageia-sysadm] Login blacklist on identity

Thu Feb 10 16:39:02 CET 2011

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 16:34 +0200, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
+>> Michael Scherer skrev 10.2.2011 16:28:
+>> > Hi,
+>> >
+>> > While thinking about setting email alias, I realized that if we are
+>> > gonna offer alias to various people, we should maybe forbid certain
+>> > login to be registered, like press, contact, president so they do not
+>> > clash in the future.
+>> >
+>> > Is there anything to add on that list :
+>> >   contact   ->  already used on the current website
+>> >   press     ->  the same
+>> >
+>> >   president ->  could be nice to have
+>> >   secretary ->  ditto
+>> >   treasurer ->  ditto
+>> >
+>> > security ?
+>>
+>> yep
+>>
+>> and:
+>> kernel
+>> kde
+>> gnome
+> Why ?
+>
+> Each alias we add is a exception somewhere, each exception is just one
+> more hurdle in automation.
+> If the goal is to work around bugzilla lack of multiple maintainers, a
+> more generic solution should be found ( like $package at maint.$domain
+> aliases ) instead of doing everything by hand. And so using a different
+> namespace for that.
+
+because we could later organize team like kde team, gnome team, ...
+with as alias something like {kde, gnome, xfce}@mageia.org or  {kde,
+gnome, xfce}team at mageia.org
+