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

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 04 maart 2011 19:52:27 schreef nicolas vigier:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2011, 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.
> > 
> > re-trying to answer more or less coherent:
> > 
> > having "cn" attribute for changelog would be best, imho, but it could be
> > coupled with the mageia email of the packages(packagegroup). (if that is
> > wanted, or even a package email could be made if the person in question
> > wouldn't want to have their own email address on it).
> 
> Using a packagegroup email in changelog doesn't make sense at all,
> changelog is supposed to list the people who made changes, not the
> maintainer of the package. The complaint against using packager email
> in changelog was that "it encourages users to contact packagers directly
> via private email rather than going through the proper support channels".
> And using a packagegroup email redirected to maintainer doesn't solve
> that.
> 
> So you're proposing a solution that doesn't fix the problem.

well, maybe only indirectly, since the maintainers should be the people who at 
least (silently) agreed to the change in question.

it often happens someone else makes the change, that is true, and it probably 
would be easier to have the email of that person instead of only the "cn" 
field.

> Actually I don't remember receiving any email from users who found my
> email in a rpm changelog. And if that happens, answering with the URL of
> bugzilla does not take so much time. So I don't think that's a problem.

i didn't either, but then i didn't commit much.