Ambassador Aliases

[Mike McGrath]

So the firstname.lastname removal has been done and went fairly well 
with one exception.  Many of the ambassadors use firstname.lastname when 
dealing with other people.  They like a good, professional looking email 
address.  Unfortunately, not everyone thinks of this when they're 
creating their account name and trying to be an ambassador with 
fluffyone23 at fedoraproject.org may cause issues.

I've added a few exceptions but I really don't want our group 
maintaining this list.  We're not in the business of user 
administration, that always gets delegated to the specific group 
owners/admins.  This puts us in an awkward position because of the 
sensitive nature of the alises file we can't just let everyone edit this 
file.  Here's what I'd like to propose:

Thomas Chung has offered to maintain this list for the ambassadors.  
Since its a manual intervention we're not as open to attack/collisions 
as we were when it was automated.  We'll continue to use CVS so we get 
notifications when a change goes out.  Additionally I've given the 
following guidelines to Thomas should we chose to go this route:

* All alises for the ambassadors must be firstname.lastname at fp.o
* Exceptions are made by Thomas Chung for the ambassadors only.  He has 
the final say as to whether someone is eligible for the alias
* Careful precautions must be made to not cause collisions. (This would 
include looking out for suspicious aliases like 
senior.admin at fedoraproject.org


Does anyone have any issues / concerns with this?

    -Mike