Feature changed by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #306571, revision 5 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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306571