Changing the subject as requested by Daniel On Aug 20, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote:
> On 8/19/2011 4:58 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: >> Hi, Dave >> On 8/19/2011 13:48, Dave Fisher wrote: >>> >>> On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote: >>> >> [snip] >>>> The [email protected] mail addresses OTOH should be preserved. They >>>> are only forwarding addresses now and they can be kept that way, >>>> can't they? >>> >>> Not sure about it. There are considerations. >>> >>> (1) How do we get the forwarding data from Oracle? Is it legal to >>> transfer the list, or is it required? >>> >>> (2) Will the ASF host this forwarding on the normal apache.org mail >>> servers >>> >>> (3) Who on the OOO PPMC will handle the daily administration of these >>> forwarders as individual email addresses change? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Dave >>> >> For (1) and (3): the addresses are part of the account with OO.o. The >> forwarding address is the user's registered (verified) email address for >> the account. Accordingly, the info will be transferred with the account >> data, and is administered (for changes) by the user. >> >> (2) Can't really say if ASF can/will forward. Why not? > > Currently, ASF infra provides mail forwarding and sending capability for > committers, but no-one else. Committers are people who have shown clear > merit (i.e. they've been voted in by one of our project communities) and also > have signed an iCLA, so we have some sort of relationship with them. > > Personally, I would not envision allowing any new [email protected] email addresses to > be created, unless they're for committers (who should probably use an > @apache.org id instead). I don't quite know what to do with the many > existing aliases, however. Short term we certainly can keep them (seem > useful to people) but long term we would indeed need to see how 1) infra > would support it, and 2) how the future PMC would provide oversight and > manage any account issues (oh, yeah, that's your (3) above. How would Infra support email forwarding for the openoffice.org domain? Would there be a text or xml file with a forwarding map in svn somewhere? Would all the email automatically go through spamassassin before forwarding? If we had a single mapping then we can include redirection for all of the 100s of current OOo MLs into the several AOOo MLs along with the many individual emails. Regards, Dave > > - Shane
