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

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 18:58:31 CET 2011


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?


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