How to determine FAS from BZ email?

Jamie Nguyen jamie at tomoyolinux.co.uk
Thu Feb 23 15:33:26 UTC 2012


Johannes Lips wrote:
> Isn't it easiest to just ask for the FAS name of the person who wants to
> become a packager? I don't really see how this should be less efficient than
> searching the mail address in the FAS database.

Yes. Since the emails don't necessarily match up, I don't think you
can rely on querying the database. Not only is it less efficient, it
can break too! (In most cases the emails probably will match up
anyway, but you can't rely on it.)


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