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

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Fri Mar 4 05:50:23 CET 2011


On 04.03.2011 00:51, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
> Op donderdag 03 maart 2011 22:58:16 schreef nicolas vigier:
>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
>>> Op donderdag 03 maart 2011 22:31:10 schreef Romain d'Alverny:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 21:54, Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>>>>> Maarten Vanraes wrote:
>>>>>> C. how about we make <packagename>@packages.mageia.org, which could
>>>>>> use the maintainers database to forward the email to maintainers
>>>>>> (in case of more) (this could also be a packagegroup. eg:
>>>>>> firefox at packages.mageia.org could refer to maintainers of firefox,
>>>>>> xulrunner, etc...) (this option might just be too complex)
>>>>>
>>>>> That is an elegant and excellent idea.
>>>>
>>>> Elegant, but as in a changelog, that means the email does not
>>>> match/identify/link to the _person_ taking the step of actually
>>>> committing/releasing the change, but the team in charge of managing
>>>> the package. Is that wanted?
>>>>
>>>> Romain
>>>
>>> it depends, the nickname could still be kept; and we were talking about
>>> having multiple maintainers in the future?
>>
>> Except that changelog is not for listing maintainers, but the persons who
>> did some changes.
> 
> but changelog is for committing, not submitting? isn't this a totally different 
> thing?

I don't understand what you mean.

Changelog is a log of changes made to the package.

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Anssi Hannula


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