On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08/12/14 12:04, [email protected] wrote:
> > I'm working with a volunteer who has been supporting my team quite a
> > lot, and I would like to give access to a resource source (appannie)
> > for them to be more integrated in our work. (NB: Mozilla has  free
> > access to as many seats as we want but users need a @mozilla address
> > of some sort to identify them, i.e. I can't add them as @gmail or
> > other public available address.)
>
> That seems broken. An email address is a universal identifier. Why
> should the fact that other people can get addresses at the same domain
> be a problem for appannie?
>
> Mozilla is moving to use Google infrastructure for all its email, so
> it's even entirely the same back end!
>
> If the issue is that the access control is domain-based only, then there
> are various Mozilla community domains (e.g. @mozilla-community.org, and
> many regional ones) which may be able to provide the volunteer with an
> identifier to use.
>
> > Is there a resolution here on this question?
>
> No.
>

It is a shame there is not despite how much support for such was shown in
the last round of discussions.  It seems like we just got into bikeshedding
over the topic.
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