19.11.2005, 0:29:24, Kurt Lieber wrote: > What purpose does this serve? This would create all sorts of confusion. > Right now, you can meet someone in IRC and make a reasonable assumption that > their email address is <irc nick>@gentoo.org. This would confuse things > horribly imo. What about people like me that span multiple roles?
> What happens when someone (again, like me) starts out in one area, moves to > another, then still a third and finally a fourth? We're going to be > updating aliases all over the place and for what? > How does any of this make Gentoo Linux a better distro? Does it reduce > bugs? Improve QA? Can I add -staff.gentoo.org to my CFLAGS and get a > 0.00001% speed increase? > There is no technical reason why any of this is necessary and it doesn't > provide any tangible benefits that I can see. If a user really wants to > know someone's role within the project, they can go look it up on the web > site. +1 on this, and please don't touch bugzie aliases, there's enough mess as it is (postgresl herd - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; apache herd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]) If you want to do something useful, then please check that you have existing alias in metadata.xml for the ebuilds that you are maintaining (to name a few: qt, secure-tunneling or comm-fax is NOT an existing alias on bugzilla). -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;)
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