I meant it's not a problem if someone doesn't use official mail :) not that it is problem if someone does... if I was wmf employee I likely wouldn't try to appear as someone else or someone "more" to rest of community. But everyone has own preference here. It would be shame if people working for wmf were forced to use only official accounts.
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Mark Holmquist <[email protected]>wrote: > When contributing to upstream projects (in this case non-MediaWiki >> projects), using the mediawiki.org address also helps to make clearer >> the contributions of the Wikimedia orgs as such. You ave probably found >> yourselves in the situation of finding that some redhat.com, hp.com or >> whatever.com/org dude is committing a patch in some upstream project, >> and how good that feels. It can't be bad to generate this type of >> impression to developers and contributors of open source projects out >> there. >> > > For my part, though I consistently use my @member.fsf.org address, I > generally include some mention in either the commit message(s) or some > communication with the community that I'm working as an employee of the > WMF. I've made inroads with communities that way, and it appears to be > sufficient. > > > That too, and we have now this situation with the metrics reports. We >> get many times the question of WMF contributions compared to >> independents / 3rd parties and as it is now this is very difficult to >> calculate. >> > > Can I suggest asking HR for a CSV of employee names, to which you should > be able to easily add their email addresses (probably from the commit > logs)? It might take some time, but it's also relatively simple to watch > wikitech-l for new employee announcements and add them to the list. > Checking the CSV as part of your metrics script would then be pretty simple. > > Like Quim, I don't intend to force policy here, I'm just trying to solve > the problems raised :) > > (can we get some community insight, here, maybe?) > > -- > Mark Holmquist > Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > http://marktraceur.info > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
