On 5 March 2011 10:41, Buchan Milne <bgmi...@staff.telkomsa.net> wrote: > 1)What to use in the From tag in the mail to the changelog list. > > Mandriva: From: Full Name <devel@mandriva...> > Mageia: From: Mageia Team <buildsystem-daemon@mageia....> > > IMHO, it is beneficial to have the "name" of the submitter of the package in > the From tag, you can easily, from just looking at the list of mails in a > folder, see what packages were updated, and if they are packages you maintain, > who submitted them, without even having to open the mail. Having a generic > static text here is of no benefit ...
Indeef I find usefull to know who submit what directly. If I've short time to review uploads, I can focus my time on what I think should be reviewed. Then I mail the packager about stuff. If it's generic enough, I cc: the packaging ml so that everybody can benefits. > Proposal 1.1: > From: $user{cn} <packa...@mageia.org> > e.g. > From: Buchan Milne <packa...@mageia.org> > > If we want to rather try and build teams who work on specific groups of > packages, it may be better to have use: > > Proposal 1.2: > From: $user{cn} <%n...@packages.mageia.org> > e.g. > From: Buchan Milne <openl...@packages.mageia.org> My preference: 1.2 or 1.1 > 3)What to use in the %changelog section of the spec file (...) > Proposal 3.1: > $user{cn} <$user{uid}> %version-%release > e.g. > Buchan Milne <buchan> 3.5.7-1mga > > Porposal 3.2: > $user{cn} <$user{mail}> %version-%release > e.g. > Buchan Milne <bgmilne@mageia.> My preference: 3.2 so that we can efficiently perform peer review.