Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo

[James Le Cuirot]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 21:02:02 +0100
Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:

> On 09/17/2015 12:05 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 06:57:08 -0400
> > "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> Totally rethink the idea of emails aliases as something that is
> >> created on the fly.  We just need to know who should get emails
> >> for a package when it comes to bug reports.  Why can't that be
> >> calculated on the fly from the metadata.xml?
> >
> > I've not read every last part of this thread but I think I like
> > where this is going. I just want to be sure that people besides
> > those in the Java herd/project/whatever can continue to receive
> > emails for java@g.o. For instance, gnu_andrew is not a dev
> > and does not intend to be but he still likes to be CC'd on all Java
> > mail. I would not like to have to add his address to the
> > metadata.xml of every Java package.
> >
> i might not understand 100% what you are trying to say but why not add
> gnu_andrew to the java mail alias on pecker? how is metadata.xml going
> to solve this problem?

That's how we're already doing it now but I was concerned because of
what blueness said above. He was suggesting that the alias would be
created on the fly and I thought he meant from the project member list
but perhaps I misunderstood.

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James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer