Re: Killed $PRODUCT-maint gnome org aliases

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:21:05AM +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> On 7/31/09, Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org> wrote:
> >  Anyway, these files were last modified in Jan 4 2005. I could recreate
> >  them using information in LDAP (used by Mango, created from DOAP and
> >  l10n), but I do not see the point. If a maintainer needs to be
> >  contacted, use Bugzilla so everyone is informed.
> 
> I think mail aliases are useful. Not everything is technically a bug
> or a feature request and belongs in Bugzilla per se.
> 
> Think of release engineering and a module ignoring a certain freeze --
> it may not be a bug in the module on its own, but the release team or

For releng, we have scripts to email everyone.

> the docs team or i18n team needs to get in contact with the
> maintainers. Often, they already have an e-mail report of the issue.
> You could parse MAINTAINERS file or DOAP by hand for mail addresses to
> include, but having a mail alias ready would be so much handier.

I was thinking to have a site where this information is visible. Were
you aware of the aliases? Meaning: is it important for you to get the
outdated ones back, or you want it in some time in the future?

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Regards,
Olav