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

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 19:15:06 CET 2011


Op vrijdag 04 maart 2011 19:01:09 schreef nicolas vigier:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
> > Op vrijdag 04 maart 2011 05:50:23 schreef Anssi Hannula:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > afaik changelog is compiled from svn commit messages? i don't really
> > understand how the submit could have an effect on changelog?
> 
> Who said submit has an effect on changelog ? Why are you talking about
> submit ?


to be honest, i reread this thread a few times, and i have no idea... i 
clarified my point, but i donno why i was making such a point in the first 
place, cause it doesn't seem to make any sense...


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