Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

[Curtis Napier]

Kurt Lieber wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:44:53PM -0500 or thereabouts, Curtis Napier wrote:
>
>>Maybe a new GLEP is in order? It makes sense to do it now since infra is
>>going to be setting up alias' anyway. While we're at it possibly an
>>@dev.g.o as well (as someone mentioned)? That way there is no confusion.
>>If anyone wants to pursue this we should start a new thread to keep the
>>issues seperate.
>
>
> What purpose does this serve?  This would create all sorts of confusion.
> Right now, you can meet someone in IRC and make a reasonable assumption
> that their email address is <irc nick>@gentoo.org.  This would confuse
> things horribly imo.  What about people like me that span multiple roles?
>
> What happens when someone (again, like me) starts out in one area, moves to
> another, then still a third and finally a fourth?  We're going to be
> updating aliases all over the place and for what?
>
> How does any of this make Gentoo Linux a better distro?  Does it reduce
> bugs?  Improve QA?  Can I add -staff.gentoo.org to my CFLAGS and get a
> 0.00001% speed increase?
>
> There is no technical reason why any of this is necessary and it doesn't
> provide any tangible benefits that I can see.  If a user really wants to
> know someone's role within the project, they can go look it up on the web
> site.
>
> --kurt


Fair enough, I was simply throwing the idea out there to see what people 
thought. It just seems like a lot of people want to keep a clear line of 
who is a "developer" and who isn't. It makes no difference to me but 
since I am one of the people who would be affected by it I thought it 
would be good to let you know that I don't care what my email address is 
either way. Whatever the council decides is fine with me. I trust all 
the council members to make a good decision that is best for Gentoo overall.
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