On Saturday, March 05, 2011 05:47:32 am Maarten Vanraes wrote: > 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.
I changed my mind. mageiaMaintainer: [email protected] should be mageiaMaintainer: foo at mageia.org The reason is spammers now use the [email protected] account. I got a spam essage this morning on my "tspuhler" <[email protected]> from "GIFTOSWF" <[email protected]> advertising software -- Thomas
