Feature changed by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #306571, revision 10 Title: Make project and package maintainers easily accessible Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: obs automatically creates aliases package-$package@... , project-$project@... , maybe @hermes.opensuse.org . The mail should get a additional subject tag [pkg:$package] ... or [prj:$project] ... , and is Cc: ed to o-factory@o.o with this tag. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Currently it's a pita to reach package maintainers, either for the whole developer community on factory (because the mails are private and not archived) or for the maintainers (as they drown in the signal / noise ration on factory. Discussion: #1: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) (2009-06-25 14:46:16) Caution is needed to avoid spam What strategies do we have for this? can we benefit from the spam filtering that's done for o-factory@... ? #2: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) (2009-06-25 14:52:39) How do we deal with non o-factory@... subscribers? I see two alternatives: Block them from using the aliases (with a corresponding automatic reply). Or allow the posts, as they come from hermes.o.o --- and make hermes deal smartly with replies, e.g. by appropriately adding the original autor of the message to the bounced message. #3: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) (2009-07-01 12:36:05) Why would you CC a mailinglist? We just need to provide the means of contact. There is no need to add additional functionality. If somebody wants to CC a mailinglist or use a specific subject he can use his MUA. #4: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) (2009-07-01 13:02:42) (reply to #3) Maybe Cc:ing factory is no tthe best approach. How do you track a package as a very interested bystander? so you can influence decisions that will affect you, because you rely on the package? plain posting on factory could be the right thing but that requires every packager to set up his mail scoring accordingly so she sees her mails. you could also To: factory and Cc: the maintainers. but you usually want to have such discussions in public per default, don't you? #5: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) (2009-07-01 13:22:27) (reply to #4) The filtering system of hermes should support tracking of specific packages/project, but this is just another feature for the filters i think. This feature is about contacting a package maintainer or a project maintainer in a standardized fashion. #6: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) (2009-07-01 13:57:34) (reply to #5) indeed. with the constraint that the solution works well for the community, i.e. that the project related disucssions can easily be followed and joined by interested bystanders. For that reason Klaas has suggested to make hermes a smart mail forwarder. That's a clever alternative to relaying these discussions to, say, factory. #7: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) (2009-07-01 14:10:51) (reply to #6) I think you confuse the commnuity with the public. Its nice if we make it easy to follow packages or projects for people that are not involved. Its not so nice if we make a simple request like this by our community overly complicated and hard to implement just to be able to inform the public. Look all im saying is: This is a very crucial function and people now wait for this rather then creating mailinglists manualy. We need to establish communication for the Factory devel projects. So we better concentrate on the main feature. A means of contact for project project/package maintainers. #8: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) (2009-07-01 14:12:36) I would suggest to use an mlm as backend for this where hermes triggers subscription/unsubscription. I can help with this part. #9: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) (2010-02-20 11:41:02) What I wonder is what are the topics you want to discuss with the maintainers ? If it is about bugs or feature requests bugzilla should be used anyway, no ? In other cases, what is the problem with just click on the "mail" button in webui ? Or to use "osc maintainer -e" ? + #10: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) (2010-02-20 13:58:59) (reply to + #9) + There is no _problem_ with using the current means of contact. This is about + convenience. Especially contacting _project_ maintainers is cumbersome + at the moment. If i want for instance to talk to my Base:System peers i + have to copy 70(!!!) email addresses into my mailer instead of writing + to project-base:system@build.opensuse.org -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306571