Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-10-11

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

> > d) Simple and stupid mapping for e-mail aliases:
> > project shortname y -> e-mail alias is y-project@g.o
> > Legacy (e.g. y@g.o) addresses will be forwarded.
> 
> Sounds like more typing but I guess this is what makes people happy.
> Why alter the few team names who have trouble when we can force
> a change on everyone...

I'm also happy with altering the few critical team shortnames, as long as we 
can have a 1:1 mapping here between project shortname and mail alias.

> > e) Since per GLEP 39 only developers can be project members, let's
> > introduce "contributors" which are listed on the wiki project page
> > together with the members.
> 
> This doesn't solve the problem with developers who don't want to use
> SMW.

I just plainly dont care beyond a certain level of obstructiveness.

> > f) The project e-mail alias is automatically populated from the wiki page
> > (members and contributors).
> 
> Is anyone going to actually do it? Or is this a purely theoretical idea
> with nobody willing to do the work?

It's feasible according to Alex (though he doesnt particularly like the idea).

> > * Obviously there are exceptions to this rigid structure for few special
> > teams (sec, infra, ...)
> 
> Doesn't this kill the whole idea? Or are we talking about projects
> which are not allowed to maintain packages?

What's maintaining packages got to do with the generation the mail aliases?

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/