On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:52:31 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:09:24 -0700
> Alex Elsayed <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Wulf C. Krueger wrote:
> > > BUGS_TO just provides you with a means to find out whom to to
> > > contact in case of doubt/questions/whatever.
> > 
> > In order to best do this, might it be a good idea to change it to be 
> > an email-style address list?
> > i.e. 
> > BUGS_TO="Alex Elsayed <[email protected]>, John Doe
> > <[email protected]>"
> > 
> > That would make it much easier to find the person/people on IRC when
> > their email address doesn't match their IRC nick, but do have the
> > real name set for WHOIS. Maybe even include the IRC nick in
> > parentheses as part of the name.
> 
> That would mean adding in a whole new special parser thing and a way of
> combining stuff across exlibs for it. Do you really want a new,
> inconsistent syntax?

Maybe a special file akin to git's mailmap can be used to provide
additional information mappings to specific mail addresses?

> -- 
> Ciaran McCreesh

         -alip

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