On 20.06.2011 14:33, Rob Weir wrote:
I'm having difficulty reconciling the openoffice.org email forwarding
service with how Apache projects work.
[...]
And remember, committers are given email forwards via an a.o email
address. So there is no functional requirement that I can see for an
OOo address, other than the conventional postmaster and admin
addresses.
So I'd favor ending the OOo email forwarding.
This would be very bad for e.g. issue tracking. I'm not sure how the
bugtracker database will get imported though. I think it would be useful
if the issue reporters, owners or people who put themselves on the CC
list of an issue could see the progress of their favourite tasks. The
openoffice.org addresses were used e.g. for notifications or for
attributing an issue comment to a user.
The alternative would be to continue this service, but that begs the
question of who is permitted such an address, what such an address
means, who decides and what criteria are used to decide who gets such
an address?
In the old project everybody who wanted to e.g. add a detail to an issue
could get such an address within a few minutes. This is similar to how
many other projects work, e.g. KDE.
Best regards,
Herbert Duerr
