On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 14:00 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: > On Jun 20, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Herbert Duerr wrote: > > > On 20.06.2011 14:33, Rob Weir wrote: > >> I'm having difficulty reconciling the openoffice.org email forwarding > >> service with how Apache projects work. > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> And remember, committers are given email forwards via an a.o email > >> address. So there is no functional requirement that I can see for an > >> OOo address, other than the conventional postmaster and admin > >> addresses. > >> > >> So I'd favor ending the OOo email forwarding. > > > > This would be very bad for e.g. issue tracking. I'm not sure how the > > bugtracker database will get imported though. I think it would be useful if > > the issue reporters, owners or people who put themselves on the CC list of > > an issue could see the progress of their favourite tasks. The > > openoffice.org addresses were used e.g. for notifications or for > > attributing an issue comment to a user. > > We certainly need a plan that does not simply stop openoffice.org email. > > We certainly need to make decisions based on all the email lists that > currently exist - which apache.org or other mailing list is the replacement. > > For notifications about issues both JIRA and Bugzilla can be set to notify > the proper apache.org mailing list. > > Does anyone have a handle on the numbers? > > How many mailing lists are there at openoffice.org? > > How many individual forwards do we have? > > It would help to have some data before discussing with Infrastructure what > they are willing to support and when. > > >> The alternative would be to continue this service, but that begs the > >> question of who is permitted such an address, what such an address > >> means, who decides and what criteria are used to decide who gets such > >> an address? > > > > In the old project everybody who wanted to e.g. add a detail to an issue > > could get such an address within a few minutes. This is similar to how many > > other projects work, e.g. KDE. > > So, ANYONE could get an openoffice.org email alias for their real email > address? > > And there must be infrastructure to be able to change that email address and > cancel it as well. > > Messy, the bugzilla transition is therefore entangled with how we deal with > openoffice.org. > > Does this personal openoffice.org email forwarding also entangle with the > user forum transitions?
Hi I don't think so. The registration database is totally separate. There is the need for the phpBB system to have access to an SMTP server and a single administrative email account. I can give details about that on the intra ML if needed, but it's fairly plane jane stuff. Otherwise when folks register they supply a real email address and the forum software needs to notify them of an action, for example when a response comes to a topic they opened, this real email is used. //drew
