Op vrijdag 04 maart 2011 09:05:02 schreef Buchan Milne: > On Thursday, 3 March 2011 22:43:25 Maarten Vanraes wrote: > > I think we need to have a name and email address. however, some options: > > > > > > A. possibly "cn" could be editable in identity > > Please stop referring to possibilities that exist as if they don't ... it > is depressing that people keep assuming things don't work, when one has > put effort into making them work ...
I'm sorry, i myself have done a few patches to catdap, i know it's there, except, i heard that cn was planned to be used as a concatenation of givenName and sn; which i could understand as a fill-in default, but not really forced. What i meant more, is to have a "display Name" thing during registration, more visible. > (IOW, if users should *not* be able to edit cn, then there is one > configuration entry to edit) (i notice that there is no mention of successfull edit, when doing so) > > ==> this will allow people to fill in what they want, be it full name, > > nickname, or full name AND nickname > > > > cn could then be used as the name field > > That is the current situation, at least in bugzilla, and should be in > forum. > > > B. an email address is required IMHO, and preferably a @mageia.org email > > address > > > > however, if people wouldn't want to have their email address listed, an > > extra option is this: > > > > C. how about we make <packagename>@packages.mageia.org, which could use > > the maintainers database to forward the email to maintainers (in case of > > more) (this could also be a packagegroup. eg: > > [email protected] could refer to maintainers of firefox, > > xulrunner, etc...) (this option might just be too complex) > > /me notes that this might be easier done in LDAP, as a postfix alias map. > Which begs the question ... should the maintainer "database" be in LDAP > instead? > > (BTW., I was thinking along the lines of package groups, with multi-valued > attribute for package name and maintainer. e.g.: > > dn: cn=firefoxteam,ou=Packages,dc=mageia,dc=org > objectClass: mageiaPackageGroup > cn: firefox-team > mail: [email protected] > mageiaPackage: firefox > mageiaPackage: firefox-en_gb > mageiaPackage: firefox-ext-firebug > .... > mageiaMaintainer: [email protected] > mageiaMaintainer: [email protected] > owner: uid=xxx,ou=People,dc=mageia,dc=org > > > D. if people really want to use their own personal email address, perhaps > > one can be opted-in to use that one. (but this should be decided in a > > policy and be strict on it either YES/NO) > > Per-user options are difficult to administer, I would prefer the same > behaviour for everyone, and the choice to provide data at the user's > discretion. E.g., the current situation, where contributors are requested > to provide real givenName,sn, but are free to use whatever cn they prefer, > and all external tools use cn. sn and givenName are only used for > account/identity validation, legal requirements etc. and all uses of the > data must respect privacy policy. > > > personally, i like: > > A, B, C, but vote NO for D. > > > > i would like to use "AL13N <[email protected]>" being used. my real name > > is kind of not linked the the email address. > > Well, I haven't seen any authoritative statement on whether all > contributors will have @mageia.org aliases, and some work needs to be done > for this if it will be provided. AFAIK, i think from reading founders meetings, this is planned to be rolled out on a step by step basis, iirc founders/council has it, and it was planned to be rolled out at least to the "recognised peers" of each team.
