[Mageia-sysadm] [RPM] cauldron core/release tagtool-0.12.3-2.mga1

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 15:29, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
> I don't agree at all, I like it as it is currently with no email address
> and only the nickname.
>
> Email addresses will get harvested by spam-bots (has happened to me already
> on MDV rpms I published in a third party repo).

Valid concern - although this may not be the biggest source of your spam.

> Users should contact packagers vis email, they should file a bug report or
> post a mail to the ML, I would certainly not want to get direct mails by
> users!

Provided they are guided (website, readmes, tutorials), they will file
a bug report .People that do read changelog are of a more technical
type and if they do contact you directly, that may be legitimate.

> With regards to real names, not everybody likes to publically use their
> real name on the internet, I certainly don't like it.

Why?

> Mandriva was a company so that was a different situation.

Why? Mageia has a legal structure (Mageia.org), and is still a
serious, dependable project.

> In a lot of FOSS projects all contributors are only known by their nicknames
> so that's common practice.

In all that I can think of, people use their nickname, yes, but have
too a clearly stated real name and email contact available.

And that's not only common, but good practice to know who is actually
packaging some software for a distribution.

> At the very least each packager should be able to decide him/herself if
> they want their real name or their nickname to appear in the rpm
> changelogs.

Depends on the project policy - maybe to be written down.

As for me, I find it a better, elementary indication of reliability
and trust to have packagers real name and email contact available
there. But that's me.

Romain