On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:53:27 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > what's so bad about the -maintainers mailing list? > > I've no problem with it for public discussion. But the original post > in this thread from Mr. Schwendt, specifically talked a problem with > private communication between maintainers. I can't speak as to why he > needs private communication with another contributor. Contributors must be able to contact sponsors. Sponsors must be able to contact contributors. Anyone else may want to contact a package developer privately [e.g. in case of security issues or other warnings ["don't build your last update, it will break badly because of a really embarrassing mistake!"]). Now, -maintainers list (which limits communication to insiders) can be used by fellow contributors to post something like "Joe, I cannot reach you by mail" and Joe hopefully sees that message in the list traffic. But that doesn't solve the problem. What does Joe do? If there is another e-mail address where he can be reached, that address could receive forwarded messages from the @fedora.redhat.com alias. And that would solve the problem. Other things to consider: * Possibility to do account system lookups Name -> Username -> e-mail address * Message submission box in account system * Are all Extras contributors in bugzilla "fedora_contrib" group?
