'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 07/03/11 12:53 did gyre and gimble: > 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.
+1 on both TV's comments. Email addresses are the new "username" in today's VCSs anyway.... Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]