Marcelo E. Magallon, 2004-11-05 01:50:05 +0100 : > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 11:31:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Your project registration for Alioth has been denied.
[...] > > If you decide to use an alioth project to comaintain a package, > > you need to include a "pkg-" prefix in your project name. [...] > a) I couldn't find a policy in the website Used to be there. Should be restored sometime. > b) It's very rude to reply anonymously, someone care to put a name > behind this email? This message was sent automatically by the web interface when I (Roland Mas) denied your project. Gforge currently does not impersonate people, so it sends messages from a clearly invalid address. > c) Can't you just do it yourself? 1. The point of Alioth (of Gforge, really) is to provide a simple and quick way for people to register projects. It took me about two years to educate my co-workers about their own ability to register their own accounts and projects instead of coming to see me with "Can you make an account for me?" requests. I'm surprised my esteemed fellow Debian developers are not more clueful. 2. Yes, I could have done so. It would however have taken time for me to do so. When I have that sort of time, I usually prefer working on the next Gforge and/or the next Alioth. Like, you know, the one where we get rid of the infamous LDAP setup. 3. Judging by the masses of people who were confused, nay, irritated by the fact that their loginnames were not "foo" but "foo-guest", despite the "-guest" being prominently displayed in the "Create an account page", if I started messing around with people's project names, I'd probably get yelled at quite a lot. I try to do my best to live without being yelled at. > But whatever, I'll jump thru the hoops if that's what it takes. That would be so kind. > This project is making a custom out of threating developers like crap. Thank you. I'll try to remember that next time I need to spend like ten hours in a row working on fixing Alioth. It'll give me such a motivation. Maybe I should even make a poster out of that. Roland. -- Roland Mas M-x execute-extended-command