On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:58:14 -0600, Carsten Munk <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/7/9 Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>: > > On 7/9/2010 10:35 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > > it would suite you if you would use your corporate email address in public > > rather than an anonymous gmail one. > > (Ignoring the case at hand, forking the thread) > > I personally don't see any reason why he would have to. An earth-near > explanation can be that he signed up for these lists before knowing > involvement at day zero, through the meego.com web interface when > signing up for an account and to his gmail to follow the activity. > meego-packaging subscriptions was added using our OBS accounts, which > most likely, have our corporate emails. > > This is MeeGo. Your company affiliation does not make your opinions > more or less valid or invalid. We have a problem if we think like > this.
This is something I have thought about for a long time - I'm the person who established the rule at Intel that any Intel employee has to be identifiable as such when posting to mailing lists related to their work. To me it's a matter of accountability and honestity to do so. Stop right here. I AM NOT IMPLYING ANYONE NOT DOING SO ISN'T ACCOUNTABLE OR HONEST. Ok? I just feel (and had this confirmed by many open source contributors that I've talked to in the past) that in conversations like this it is a good practice to make sure people understand that you are being paid for this work and by whom you are being paid. Is it necessary? No. Is it in general a good idea? I sure think so. > If you (Arjan) were writing using a @moocows.com e-mail, having the > merit you have and the position as Chief Architect, your domain name > does not affect the validity of your opinions. They're as is. Arjan (and I, and many others at Intel) frequently post to mailing lists from other accounts. And we tend to have a little signature at the end of our emails (in my case those tend to be from [email protected], for Arjan it would be [email protected]) or some other way that makes sure people are aware that we work at Intel. > Frankly, it would all be easier if contributors with a role/commit bit > of MeeGo had a [email protected] mail address to drive this point > through. Something to think about. I would still require at least all Intel people to have an appropriate signature. /D -- Dirk Hohndel Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
