Kurt Lieber wrote:
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:44:53PM -0500 or thereabouts, Curtis Napier wrote:
Maybe a new GLEP is in order? It makes sense to do it now since infra is
going to be setting up alias' anyway. While we're at it possibly an
@dev.g.o as well (as someone mentioned)? That way there is no confusion.
If anyone wants to pursue this we should start a new thread to keep the
issues seperate.
What purpose does this serve? This would create all sorts of confusion.
Right now, you can meet someone in IRC and make a reasonable assumption
that their email address is <irc nick>@gentoo.org. This would confuse
things horribly imo. What about people like me that span multiple roles?
What happens when someone (again, like me) starts out in one area, moves to
another, then still a third and finally a fourth? We're going to be
updating aliases all over the place and for what?
How does any of this make Gentoo Linux a better distro? Does it reduce
bugs? Improve QA? Can I add -staff.gentoo.org to my CFLAGS and get a
0.00001% speed increase?
There is no technical reason why any of this is necessary and it doesn't
provide any tangible benefits that I can see. If a user really wants to
know someone's role within the project, they can go look it up on the web
site.
--kurt
Fair enough, I was simply throwing the idea out there to see what people
thought. It just seems like a lot of people want to keep a clear line of
who is a "developer" and who isn't. It makes no difference to me but
since I am one of the people who would be affected by it I thought it
would be good to let you know that I don't care what my email address is
either way. Whatever the council decides is fine with me. I trust all
the council members to make a good decision that is best for Gentoo overall.
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