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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Monday 26 March 2007 18:58:57 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:
<snip>
> 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    There are a *ton* of these, many of which are out of date, and IMO it's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?
>
> 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.

I'm fine with removing them. They were there for when we had a section 
maintainer for almost every section, and when one left and another picked up 
it was easier for the new guy to use the old address for finding bugs and 
keeping up on updates in their section (e.g. Freshmeat announcements).

We'll want to reassign all the bugs before we delete the addresses, of 
course. ;)

-sandalle

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