RE : Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-25 Thread Jonathan Lafontaine
spam getting worst than I thought! as long as the white list do not grow up... De : Stephen Gran [sg...@debian.org] Date d'envoi : 22 mai 2009 17:30 À : dda Objet : Who uses @packages.d.o mail? Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-25 Thread Antonio Radici
Hi, I've always found package@packages.debian.org as the easiest way to contact the maintainer and anyone involved, for example if I'm working on a particular package I'll contact the co-maintainers using that mailing list. It is also good because you don't need to request for a mailing list

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 23, Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca wrote: I'm open to other options, of course. What is the recommended practice for this scenario? Implement spam filtering? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a day

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a day

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: On May 23, Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca wrote: I'm open to other options, of course. What is the recommended practice for this scenario? Implement spam filtering? I think adding the lists.debian.org and bugs.debian.org ruleset[1] to

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 22 May 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a day from elsewhere. I haven't done an

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain down to only accept mail from other debian.org machines. If it's not, I'd like to work with people who do use it to either make it possible to send their mail from

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a day

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Bill Allombert wrote: I use packages.debian.org each time I reassign a bug to a package to make sure the new maintainer is notified. I think this should be a best practice. BTS automatically adds maintainers of package where bug went to To/CC of reassign mail, doesn't it? -- Eugene V.

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: What about requiring a GPG signed email by key in developers or maintainers keyring? As others have already mentioned, the addresses are also intended as contact point for upstream developers and users, i.e. people who don't have such a key.

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:46:08PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: I use packages.debian.org each time I reassign a bug to a package to make sure the new maintainer is notified. I think this should be a best practice. BTS automatically adds maintainers of package

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Stephen Gran wrote: It sounds like the service should probably stay open. I would have been happy to restrict something that is only a spam attractor, but if it's more than that, than I'm happy people find it a useful service. If the teams who do use it think it can still be useful and be

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf.de...@gmail.com wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: I use packages.debian.org each time I reassign a bug to a package to make sure the new maintainer is notified. I think this should be a best practice. BTS automatically adds maintainers of package where bug went to To/CC

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:58:32PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf.de...@gmail.com wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: I use packages.debian.org each time I reassign a bug to a package to make sure the new maintainer is notified. I think this should be a best practice.

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jonathan Wiltshire said: The debian-l10n-english team, and perhaps others, use this domain to keep the maintainer in the loop during Smith English-language reviews and the subsequent translations. This one time, at band camp, Adeodato Simó

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Küster
Stephen Gran sg...@debian.org wrote: day from elsewhere. I haven't done an exhaustive survey, but it seems pretty clear so far that the domain does not get any significant amount of legitimate mail from machines other than the debian.org hosts. If this is actually the case, I'd like to

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I use b...@packages.debian.org to contact the maintainer of blah. I use this to alert maintainers of reverse build-deps when I do something drastic to one of the libraries I maintain. I'm open to other options, of course. What is the recommended practice for this scenario? Thanks, -Steve

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hello Stephen, On Friday 22 May 2009 16:30:03 Stephen Gran wrote: [...] If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain down to only accept mail from other debian.org machines. If it's not, I'd like to work with people who do use it to either make it possible to send their mail

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Robert Millan
Much appreciated. Thanks. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries),

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Stephen Gran sg...@debian.org [2009-05-22 23:30:03 CEST]: If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain down to only accept mail from other debian.org machines. If it's not, I'd like to work with people who do use it to either make it possible to send their mail from debian.org

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 22 May 2009 22:30:03 +0100 Stephen Gran sg...@debian.org wrote: Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain down to only accept mail from other debian.org machines. If it's not, I'd like to work with people who do use it to either make it possible to send their mail from

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
I haven't done an exhaustive survey, but it seems pretty clear so far that the domain does not get any significant amount of legitimate mail from machines other than the debian.org hosts. As I understand it, pkg@packages.d.o is the standard way of contacting the maintainers of a package in an

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 22 May 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, I always use it to CC the maintainer(s) of a package I reassign a bug to, or if I want to CC a package maintainer on some discussion. For me it's the most natural address to use,

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 22 May 2009, Neil Williams wrote: Maybe a list of packages that do use it and an address to email for those who want to start using it at a later date? That would defeat its purpose. It is not about which maintainers use it, but about who uses it to contact maintainers. Cheers, FJP

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 22, Raphael Geissert atom...@gmail.com wrote: @packages.d.o is known to be the easiest way to get in touch with a maintainer, and is often used when CC'ing maintainers of multiple packages. Then it needs to be fixed, soon, because it the last few weeks I started receiving a huge

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jonathan Wiltshire said: The debian-l10n-english team, and perhaps others, use this domain to keep the maintainer in the loop during Smith English-language reviews and the subsequent translations. This one time, at band camp, Adeodato Simó said: I use it all the

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, (...) it seems pretty clear so far that the domain does not get any significant amount of legitimate mail from machines other than the debian.org hosts. I

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines