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

[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 ?