On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 21:02:02 +0100 Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 09/17/2015 12:05 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 06:57:08 -0400 > > "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> Totally rethink the idea of emails aliases as something that is > >> created on the fly. We just need to know who should get emails > >> for a package when it comes to bug reports. Why can't that be > >> calculated on the fly from the metadata.xml? > > > > I've not read every last part of this thread but I think I like > > where this is going. I just want to be sure that people besides > > those in the Java herd/project/whatever can continue to receive > > emails for j...@gentoo.org. For instance, gnu_andrew is not a dev > > and does not intend to be but he still likes to be CC'd on all Java > > mail. I would not like to have to add his address to the > > metadata.xml of every Java package. > > > i might not understand 100% what you are trying to say but why not add > gnu_andrew to the java mail alias on pecker? how is metadata.xml going > to solve this problem? That's how we're already doing it now but I was concerned because of what blueness said above. He was suggesting that the alias would be created on the fly and I thought he meant from the project member list but perhaps I misunderstood. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
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