[email] RE: [Discussion] dev@openoffice.org

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>]

This has come up a few times with different tags: e.g., [email], [Identifying Contributors].

The responses I recall are all variations on preserving the mumble@openoffice.org e-mail forwarding, not accepting new ones, and allowing minimal maintenance (change of forwarding, abandonment).

It is also relevant to the continuing and retrospective identification of contributors in other project artifacts (bug reports, patches, etc.).

 - Dennis

WONDERING ABOUT ...

The personal-information angle is minimized if the existing registrations and e-mail address are preserved, one would hope.  There are probably other formalities that are appropriate in letting users know that a rehosting may happen.  

I presume we can satisfy the expectation of privacy as well as when it was handled by Sun and Oracle?

And the alternative, for those folks who are happily using those e-mail addresses and are known by them is that they will suddenly stop working.  I don't see how that wins friends.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Fisher [mailto:dave2wave@comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 10:48
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [Discussion] dev@openoffice.org


On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote:
[ ... ]
> The foobar@openoffice.org mail addresses OTOH should be preserved. They
> are only forwarding addresses now and they can be kept that way, can't they?

Not sure about it. There are considerations.

(1) How do we get the forwarding data from Oracle? Is it legal to transfer the list, or is it required?

(2) Will the ASF host this forwarding on the normal apache.org mail servers

(3) Who on the OOO PPMC will handle the daily administration of these forwarders as individual email addresses change?

Regards,
Dave

> 
> Regards,
> Mathias