[Mageia-sysadm] [RPM] cauldron core/release tagtool-0.12.3-2.mga1

Thu Mar 3 03:06:30 CET 2011

+
+Like I said previously, this discussion needs to be moved into the Mageia
+dev ML, all packagers need to be aware of this and be able to comment, not
+just those like me who luckily found this discussion by accident!
+
+Apart from that, sure a user might have many wishes, but in a situation
+where the user is NOT a paying customer while the packager is a volunteer
+it should be the packager who decides how much of his time he contributes
+and privacy he is willing to give up, NOT the users every possible
+wishes!
+
+And finally if you simply change from the current situation to publishing
+the packagers name/surname/email WITHOUT PRIOR CONSENT of the packagers,
+Mageia would be in breach of european privacy laws, this has to be
+communicated to packagers first so they have a chance to either opt-out
+(worst case by stop being a packager if you leave them no other choice) or
+change their names to fake names.
+
+Also there should be a possiblility for packagers to use a different email
+address for the changelog entries, not the same one in the mageia identity
+db, I for example use a separate unique email address for every separate
+purpose, so I can very easily stop spam by blocking off one specific email
+address.
+
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