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From: "Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 11:19:30
Message-Id: g18tj7$5sc$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use by Ulrich Mueller
1 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2
3 >>>>>> On Sat, 24 May 2008, Tiziano Müller wrote:
4 >
5 >> Changing your name because of technical difficulties? This is really
6 >> not the way to go. Systems have to be adjusted to meet our needs,
7 >> not the other way round (in case it is possible of course).
8 >
9 > +1
10 >
11 >> But nevertheless, it would be nice to have a common scheme as
12 >> pointed out by Flameeyes/Remi.
13 >
14 > But then it should be $HERD@g.o rather than
15 > $HERD-$SUFFIX@g.o, because the former is the most common case
16 > now (followed by $HERD-bugs@g.o).
17 Which seems not to be possible because:
18 a) name clashes with system-accounts
19 b) common names are being spammed
20
21 >
22 > It would be quite pointless to change most teams' e-mail addresses in
23 > our documentation.
24 That's why we should be able to use something like
25 <team-alias>$TEAM</team-alias> which gets replaced by the proper mail-alias
26 in the XSL (and yes, we could then also inject something obfuscated instead
27 of the real email-alias :-)
28
29 Cheers,
30 Tiziano
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