[jira] [Commented] (INFRA-8396) Does INFRA-7390 have implications for allowable user ids?

["Sebb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sebb commented on INFRA-8396:
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Yes, the secretary tool needs to be aware of the issue.
But accounts are known to be created directly by Infra as well, so whatever Infra uses needs to be adjusted too.

> Does INFRA-7390 have implications for allowable user ids?
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: INFRA-8396
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8396
>             Project: Infrastructure
>          Issue Type: Task
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>            Reporter: Sebb
>            Assignee: Sam Ruby
>
> INFRA-7390 introduced e-mail aliases of the form
> availid-suffix@apache.org
> Now there are already some availids which contain a hyphen "-".
> Currently the list is:
> an-selm
> james-masanz
> jean-louis
> rgb-es
> soc-xzw
> swaroop-aj
> To avoid ambiguity, this means that the following ids should not be issued
> an
> james
> jean
> rgb
> soc
> swaroop
> AFAICT, these ids have not yet been allocated.
> But if any such ids were issued, there would be opportunities for mails to be unexpectedly misdirected.
> I don't know how potential availids are screened for suitability.
> If there is an automated check, it should be trivial to add the first part of existing ids to the list of exclusions.
> Note that the suffix can contain hyphens, so an availid of the form "a-b-c" should disallow "a-b" as well as "a", etc. for additional hyphens



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