Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposing fundamental changes to DevRel
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:36:13
Message-Id: AANLkTimW1m1L4Zpj-ngCvDHBC6ucTmLFtZREXxusAutG@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposing fundamental changes to DevRel by Sebastian Pipping
1 On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 06/17/10 16:37, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
3 >>> I don't know what gave you the idea that the list of the Developer
4 >>> Relations project members is private.
5 >
6 > Also, Willinks reports the alias to be empty, unlike with other aliases:
7 >
8 >  [00:44] <sping> expn devrel
9 >  [00:44] <willikins> devrel =
10 >
11 > A question of rbu just made me remember ...
12
13 This is an implementation detail of willikins (it only has access to a
14 subset of aliases.) Note that the very existence of that command is
15 based on a random comment I made about similar functionality I saw
16 somewhere else. I don't think it was ever meant to be exhaustive,
17 merely useful.
18
19 I pointed out the /var/mail 'security problem' to robin sometime last
20 year and IIRC he responded that he was aware of the master.aliases
21 file and was fine with it being readable.
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26 > Sebastian
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