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Sam Ruby commented on WHIMSY-49:
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Further background:
I was the author of that code. The infrastructure contractors I worked with
at the time are no longer contractors nor particularly active on the ASF
infrastructure team. You can do a `svn log
https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tools/submit-account-request.rb`
to see the history:
33 danielsh
16 rubys
4 joes
2 markt
1 relax
1 pctony
1 local
1 gstein
[~ke4qqq]: Is the current ASF infrastructure team prepared to maintain this
code?
I will assert that the Whimsy PMC is ready, willing, and able to maintain this
code; but I don't want to unilaterally take over this function without talking
it through.
> Does INFRA-7390 have implications for allowable user ids?
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: WHIMSY-49
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIMSY-49
> Project: Whimsy
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Sebb
> Attachments: WHIMSY-49-2.patch
>
>
> INFRA-7390 introduced e-mail aliases of the form
> availid-suf...@apache.org
> Now there are already some availids which contain a hyphen "-".
> Currently the list is:
> an-selm
> james-masanz
> jean-louis
> rgb-es
> soc-xzw
> swaroop-aj
> To avoid ambiguity, this means that the following ids should not be issued
> an
> james
> jean
> rgb
> soc
> swaroop
> AFAICT, these ids have not yet been allocated.
> But if any such ids were issued, there would be opportunities for mails to be
> unexpectedly misdirected.
> I don't know how potential availids are screened for suitability.
> If there is an automated check, it should be trivial to add the first part of
> existing ids to the list of exclusions.
> Note that the suffix can contain hyphens, so an availid of the form "a-b-c"
> should disallow "a-b" as well as "a", etc. for additional hyphens
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