Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages]

2017-11-15 Thread Sam Hartman
I think if we can find a way to manage it technically, allowing people to forward email would be a reasonable thing to do.

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages]

2017-11-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 12:23 AM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > non-uploading DD where the MIA team is not looking at. Is this because of it being hard to track the contributions of non-uploading DDs? Is the MIA team looking at contributors.d.o data? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages]

2017-11-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Mattia, On Wed, Nov 15 2017, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > IMHO if somebody care to keep their forward email usable they can very > well care enough to have a robust enough key and keep it in the > keyring, and possibly be demoted to non-uploading DD where the MIA > team is not looking at. I'd l

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding

2017-11-15 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 01:45:52PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > In many cases (such this particular one) people don't have a viable gpg > key anymore in the keyring: that means they can't email > chan...@db.debian.org to update their LDAP details (theoretically, they > might still know the LDAP

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages]

2017-11-15 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 04:08:41PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > It would be possible to have an "emeritus" keyring, I guess. Since it > would only be used for email forwarding and a few other things, it > could have weaker security requirements. Techinically such keyring exists, but they are not e

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages]

2017-11-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Peter Palfrader writes ("Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding"): > Without a key in a keyring that somebody maintains, authenticating such > requests, even manually, is going to be a PITA. Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding"): > In many cases (such this particul

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding

2017-11-15 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:53:18AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Unfortunately it would mean that such people would still need some > > kind of login on Debian systems, so that they could update the email > > forwarding. But it wouldn't have to have the

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding

2017-11-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:53:18AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Unfortunately it would mean that such people would still need some kind of login on Debian systems, so that they could update the email forwarding. But it wouldn't have to have the wide powers of an active DD/DM account. Unless this

Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding

2017-11-15 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:53:18AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Unfortunately it would mean that such people would still need some > kind of login on Debian systems, so that they could update the email > forwarding. In many cases (such this particular one) people don't have a viable gpg key anymore

Re: Debian banners

2017-11-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ian Jackson [2017-11-15 13:17 +0100]: > So, you could ship it to me. Perhaps Debian wants to pay for the > shipping out of Debian funds. Thanks Ian, at the moment I'm talking to someone in Cuba who'd have good use of them if we can figure out how to get them over. On the other hand

Re: Debian banners

2017-11-15 Thread Ian Jackson
martin f krafft writes ("Debian banners"): > I still have some heavy-duty banners we've used at conferences, as > well as a banner stand in my basement that I need to get rid of. > If you want them or you have an idea what to do with them, please > let me know. Else, come the end of November, I'll

Emeritus status, and email forwarding

2017-11-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Someone who was sort-of-MIA said on -private that they would like to keep their @debian.org email forwarding indefinitely, as they move to emeritus status. I think that, with some safeguards[1], this would be a good thing to offer people. If nothing else people have often used @d.o addresses in D