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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 2 March 2011 16:07, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> 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.

Valid but OT.
Having email published on one less mageia ml won't change anything...

>> 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.

Indeed.
I often do that.
That's called peer review...

>> 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.

indeed.

>> 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.

And then they can just use a special address for packages.

>
> 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.

Indeed