Ambassador Aliases
Oliver Falk
oliver at linux-kernel.at
Mon Apr 30 19:13:23 UTC 2007
Mike McGrath schrieb:
> 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?
>
No. It's fine; If you have some 'strange looking' login/account-name
like the fluffyone23 you mentioned, it's better to go with
FirstName.LastName at fp.o. For me oliver at fp.o is fine. :-)
Best,
Oliver
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