Lance Albertson wrote: [Fri Nov 18 2005, 05:46:47PM CST] > Anyways, I don't see any problem with us giving them straight up > [EMAIL PROTECTED] aliases. They won't have shell access, nor cvs so we > don't have to worry about that. This makes it very simple for us infra > folks to manage. I can only imagine the hell we'll create when someone > moves from staff.g.o to tester.g.o to g.o. I will not support any GLEP > that proposes any nonsense like that since its totally not needed. Yes, > I could have spoken up about this sooner, but I can't keep track of > every thread on -dev.
I believe that the issue was that @g.o addresses generally denote a dev, and that giving such addresses to people who are not devs could cause confusion. For example, suppose we have a user who specializes in a particular imap server. If there were an urgent security issue, such a user might get a request to stable the package despite the fact that the person isn't a dev, which wouldn't serve anybody. A simpler method would be to ditch the idea of handing out e-mail addresses to users, no matter how much work they do for us, but that idea wasn't much more popular than any of the others. *Shrug* > I'm very disappointed that the council did not wait on the vote for this > considering the sudden submission of the revision of the GLEP. I'm > curious the reasoning for going ahead with this? Have you read the log? It's fairly clear why they did it; they were being nice, because although I always intended the GLEP process to be iterative, with plenty of time for comments, I never put it in writing.. I personally think that it would have been better to hold off until next month, but it was a judgement call, and I don't think it was wholly unreasonable. The Council did go out of their way to emphasize that there should not be a repeat of this event. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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