[gentoo-dev] Possible solution: email subdomain

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Marius Mauch posted <20051123002605.174c3fc8@sven.genone.homeip.net>,
excerpted below,  on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:26:05 +0100:

> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:19:17 +0100
> Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> Why not just @at.gentoo.org
>> Makes clear what it is. Arch testers are not staff. Not that we have any
>> staff.
> 
> Can't we just let the whole subdomain stuff die and be done with it? If
> not, I'd like to propose we make a vote amongst all current devs with the
> options:
> - give ATs a @g.o email
> - give them a subdomain
> - give them no mail
> - don't care
> Just to get some numbers how many people actually want this subdomain
> crap. I don't think there are many.

There's an idea Jeroen Roovers posted (message
<20051120020737.1dc2ee42@epia.jer.lan> ) that would, AFAIK, solve the
problem for infra, while still giving AT/HTs a distinctive address.
Unfortunately, noone seemed to pickup on it besides me.  (No other
comments to the subthread, thus I'm changing the title this time around,
hoping to get a bit better response.)

Here's the proposal again.  If there's an issue with it, shoot it down,
but from here, it certainly seems to fit the bill.  Again, I'd /love/ to
say I was the one that came up with it, but I wasn't. =8^)

* give [AH]Ts a <name>.tester@gentoo.org address.

- It's not a subdomain, so the existing infrastructure should have no
problems with it.

- testername.tester@gentoo.org remains distinctive enough it should
alleviate any doubts or confusion over status.

- the biggest possible objection I can see is that the root,
tester@gentoo.org, is already in use.  Thus, in particular, I'd like to
see his reaction to this proposal.  We could, of course, take the same
idea and change the root, if necessary.  My previous suggestion, intern,
would work, or assistant, or something else.  Tester is of course short
and concise, but intern or assistant would be more generic, allowing the
possiblity of other non-tester additions, in the future, with the same
root.

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