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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: "gentoo-project@l.g.o" <gentoo-project@l.g.o>, Gentoo Council <council@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-10-11
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:35:27
Message-Id: 201509302236.42443.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-10-11 by "Michał Górny"
1 > > d) Simple and stupid mapping for e-mail aliases:
2 > > project shortname y -> e-mail alias is y-project@g.o
3 > > Legacy (e.g. y@g.o) addresses will be forwarded.
4 >
5 > Sounds like more typing but I guess this is what makes people happy.
6 > Why alter the few team names who have trouble when we can force
7 > a change on everyone...
8
9 I'm also happy with altering the few critical team shortnames, as long as we
10 can have a 1:1 mapping here between project shortname and mail alias.
11
12 > > e) Since per GLEP 39 only developers can be project members, let's
13 > > introduce "contributors" which are listed on the wiki project page
14 > > together with the members.
15 >
16 > This doesn't solve the problem with developers who don't want to use
17 > SMW.
18
19 I just plainly dont care beyond a certain level of obstructiveness.
20
21 > > f) The project e-mail alias is automatically populated from the wiki page
22 > > (members and contributors).
23 >
24 > Is anyone going to actually do it? Or is this a purely theoretical idea
25 > with nobody willing to do the work?
26
27 It's feasible according to Alex (though he doesnt particularly like the idea).
28
29 > > * Obviously there are exceptions to this rigid structure for few special
30 > > teams (sec, infra, ...)
31 >
32 > Doesn't this kill the whole idea? Or are we talking about projects
33 > which are not allowed to maintain packages?
34
35 What's maintaining packages got to do with the generation the mail aliases?
36
37 --
38 Andreas K. Huettel
39 Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
40 dilfridge@g.o
41 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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