[Mageia-sysadm] Login blacklist on identity

Dexter Morgan dmorganec at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 16:39:02 CET 2011


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 16:34 +0200, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
>> Michael Scherer skrev 10.2.2011 16:28:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > While thinking about setting email alias, I realized that if we are
>> > gonna offer alias to various people, we should maybe forbid certain
>> > login to be registered, like press, contact, president so they do not
>> > clash in the future.
>> >
>> > Is there anything to add on that list :
>> >   contact   ->  already used on the current website
>> >   press     ->  the same
>> >
>> >   president ->  could be nice to have
>> >   secretary ->  ditto
>> >   treasurer ->  ditto
>> >
>> > security ?
>>
>> yep
>>
>> and:
>> kernel
>> kde
>> gnome
> Why ?
>
> Each alias we add is a exception somewhere, each exception is just one
> more hurdle in automation.
> If the goal is to work around bugzilla lack of multiple maintainers, a
> more generic solution should be found ( like $package at maint.$domain
> aliases ) instead of doing everything by hand. And so using a different
> namespace for that.

because we could later organize team like kde team, gnome team, ...
with as alias something like {kde, gnome, xfce}@mageia.org or  {kde,
gnome, xfce}team at mageia.org


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