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

[Tux99]

Quote: rdalverny wrote on Wed, 02 March 2011 16:07

> > 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.

A more technical user that wants to contact a packager should still always
go via the dev ML not direct email, not least because any package related
discussion should be in public.
So maybe we could put the dev ML email in the changelog for everybody.

> > 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.

Sure the trust is in Mageia the association and it's reputation that will
build up over time, some random names of packagers don't have an effect on
the trust.

> > 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.

That is often not the case, and doesn't make any difference anyway because
even real sounding names could be aliases.

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

So some random name means you trust a package more than if there is a
nickname?
How do you know the real sounding name isn't a fake name anyway?

Like I said the trust comes through the Mageia association and the fact
that packages are built on the official Mageia build system, not from the
names of packagers.

> > 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.

At the very least this should be discussed in the dev forum that the
packagers read, not here, hidden away in the sysadm forum. I only
discovered this thread since I maintain the Mageia ML gateway and noticed
this thread in the "Last message on the forum" entry on the main page.

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