[Savannah-hackers] Re: mail aliases on savannah.gnu.org

[Loic Dachary]

Jeff Bailey writes:
 > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:45:10PM -0500, Joel N. Weber II wrote:
 > 
 > Not 100% certain, but it could further complicate our lives if we don't 

 I don't think it's a good idea to show savannah.gnu.org as a mail domain.
My question was purely internal to the machine.

 > seperate them.  That would mean anytime someone wanted to create an 
 > alias, they would have to check:
 >
 > Kerberos
 > /etc/passwd on savannah
 > /com/mailer/aliases on fencepost
 > savannah-aliases (Presumably an include file)

 And that's exactly what Savannah does at present. Not exaclty though:
it does not check the savannah /etc/aliases files. In fact no system files
on subversions are supossed to be modified by hand, only by the 
Savannah software. 

 > I'm not comfortable with the fact that we don't have an authoritative 
 > database of usernames right now, and this integrating this adds further 
 > complexity.

 You certainly don't want savannah to be authoritative because it contains
users that are never used, users that were created and abandonned or because
of a typo etc. It's fine since creating a user on Savannah does not grant
you any right, unless the user is bound to a project. And being able to
create a user without asking anyone is a *great* design advantage of 
SourceForge. For instance there are 140 000 users created on SourceForge.net,
only 30 000 of them actually bound to a project. Savannah can never become
an authoritative database of usernames, unless, maybe, you take the 
subset of usernames that are actually bound to a project.

 Cheers,

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