From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EdHQi-000259-IP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:22:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAJ1LQuM030545; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:21:26 GMT Received: from rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.44.33.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAJ1JeG7028352 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:19:41 GMT Received: from dC9D12581.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net (dC9D12581.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net [201.209.37.129]) by rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.4/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id jAJ1JdkA031113 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:19:40 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by dC9D12581.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EdHOC-0007hQ-G9 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:19:36 -0400 Message-ID: <437E7DA8.9040106@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:19:36 -0400 From: "Luis F. Araujo" Organization: Gentoo inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051030) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain References: <1132333748.8524.9.camel@localhost> <20051118173243.GA16034@dmz.brixandersen.dk> <437E4F3E.5070705@gentoo.org> <20051118221428.15ba3adb@snowdrop.home> <437E5965.10502@gentoo.org> <20051118232924.GK12982@mail.lieber.org> <437E67E7.4040007@gentoo.org> <20051119005421.GF12958@dst.grantgoodyear.org> In-Reply-To: <20051119005421.GF12958@dst.grantgoodyear.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 46326546-592f-44d3-876b-9dfbd251519b X-Archives-Hash: a4ca966b5bfd6e67621f855ec79a948a Grant Goodyear wrote: >Lance Albertson wrote: [Fri Nov 18 2005, 05:46:47PM CST] > > >>Anyways, I don't see any problem with us giving them straight up >>foo@gentoo.org aliases. They won't have shell access, nor cvs so we >>don't have to worry about that. This makes it very simple for us infra >>folks to manage. I can only imagine the hell we'll create when someone >>moves from staff.g.o to tester.g.o to g.o. I will not support any GLEP >>that proposes any nonsense like that since its totally not needed. Yes, >>I could have spoken up about this sooner, but I can't keep track of >>every thread on -dev. >> >> > >I believe that the issue was that @g.o addresses generally denote a dev, >and that giving such addresses to people who are not devs could cause >confusion. For example, suppose we have a user who specializes in a >particular imap server. If there were an urgent security issue, such a >user might get a request to stable the package despite the fact that the >person isn't a dev, which wouldn't serve anybody. > > > That confusion might happen even with packages maintainers devs. That's why you need to check the herd before sending such a request. You might claim that you also could check for his subdomains address , but here we get to the same point of, What is the advantage of a subdomain distinction?, in other hand i believe other people will have more technical confusion (ping infra). -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list