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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> I am in the process of moving the @sourcemage.org mail aliases onto our own
> systems (finally).  To make this manageable, I need to do some clean up.
>
> Right now, we have various kinds of addresses:
>
> 1) developer aliases:
>   realname AT sourcemage.org
>   nick AT sourcemage.org
>   somethingelse AT sourcemage.org
>
>   These will all normalize down to scmloginid AT sourcemage.org, with
>   nick AT sourcemage.org and somethingelse AT sourcemage.org available as well.
>   So every dev will have at least scmloginid@, with the option of also
>   having nick@ and whatever other username forms make reasonable sense, all
>   pointing the same place.
W00t!

> 2) component lead aliases, project aliases, etc:
>
>    These will get pointed at whichever scmloginid@ alias is currently the
>    owner.

W00t!
> 3) grimoire section aliases:
>
>    I want some feedback on these.  I frankly would just as soon toss them.
>    There are a *ton* of these, many of which are out of date, and IMO it's
>    a silly amount of overhead to deal with when with our current numbers we
>    all just work on whatever needs doing regardless.  I know some of you
>    are using these as your bugzilla logins but I don't like that either; as
>    people have noted before, that means if someone else takes ownership of
>    the section, they end up with all your bugzilla baggage even outside of
>    their own section.  And as said I really want to see us switch to
>    grimoire bugs all getting assigned to sm-grimoire-bugs, not individual
>    section addresses.
>    
>    Further, most of our aliases like this only get spam anyway.  I know,
>    I'm PL and get a lot of these straight to me now, and it's all noise.
>
>    Comments on this one?  Is it going to make people mad if they lose these
>    aliases?  Is there another argument for keeping them?

W00t!
Toss 'em! Won't hurt us any. Especially since we should move to 
everything being assigned to the lists. Or CC the list. Or something 
like that. Section aliases aren't useful anymore.

> I want to resolve this pretty quickly; right now I've been holding off on
> doing mail alias changes through ibiblio because of the reliability and
> delay, I'd like to get it on our own stuff so we can process it reasonably.

Whee! I'm really freakin tired right now...
David