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

[nicolas vigier]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, andre999 wrote:

> Frank Griffin a écrit :
>>
>> Romain d'Alverny wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Is it possible to have the changelog display something more unique than
>> the group email address for ID purposes, but the email address for
>> communication purposes ?
>
> Exactly.  The id part is to identify the person who did the changes. It 
> could be the pseudo at Mageia or the real name.  (Or even a fake name, as 
> far as I'm concerned.)
>
> The email adresse is for contact for support, and I find the 
> <packagename>@packages.mageia.org idea elegant as well.

The email address in the changelog is not a contact for support. It's
the contact of the person who did the change. So for me it does not make
sense to use something else than the email of the person who did the
change, something like login at mageia.org.