[Savannah-hackers] Re: Savannah CVS account for Martin Buchholz

[Martin Buchholz]

Thanks to Jeff Bailey and Loic Dachary for your quick response.

I am now registered as "mrb2", and I would appreciate the renaming of
that account to "mrb".

Personally, I am now content with the username "mrb", since that is
the account name I have on some other machines.  Confusion about the
name "martin" cannot be avoided, since Martin Baulig is also known as
"martin" at gnome.org.

Martin Baulig: I'm sure we'll occasionally get mail destined for each
other over the next decade - pleased to meet you (bow).  I have the
same kind of relationship with Martin Hamilton, address@hidden  For
future reference, you'll be pleased to know I also have the username
"martinb" on some computers.  I should have chosen a more obscure
username for myself early on in my computer life.

Happy Hacking,

Martin

>>>>> "JB" == Jeff Bailey <address@hidden> writes:

JB> This happened before we had good integration between
JB> subversions/savannah and fencepost, and happened by accident.
JB> (I suspect it was my fault)

JB> I don't know what the best solution is.

JB> Your suggestion of being consistant between the two servers is the
JB> reason you can't log in as mrb - There's now good checking from
JB> savannah that an account is actually free.

JB> if `baulig' is willing to give up 'martin' at savannah this will be
JB> simple.  If not, would you be willing to become `mrb' on the main gnu
JB> machines, and we'll forward address@hidden to mrb?  (I don't know if
JB> you use that email address).

JB> If neither is acceptable, I can ask Loic to hack in the mrb account, and
JB> we'll just have to note somewhere that the 'martin' accounts are setup
JB> suboptimally.

JB> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:23:12PM +0900, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> Hi.  I have a GNU account address@hidden
>> 
>> I would like to become a Savannah user, but...
>> 
>> My user name "martin" is already taken by someone else (Martin
>> Baulig), even though GNU user names are supposed to be reserved for
>> their GNU account owners.  
>> 
>> I was also not able to get "mrb" since that is an existing alias.
>> But it's an existing alias for _me_ (as is "martin")!
>> 
>> I suggest that:
>> 
>> - you be consistent with your policy of having GNU account holders
>> have the same account name on Savannah (although I realize this is
>> rude towards Martin Baulig),
>> 
>> or
>> 
>> - at least allow me to have the Savannah account "mrb", under which
>> name I am known on the original SourceForge, as well as at GNU.
>> 
>> (address@hidden) /gnu/gd/gd/fsf/martin $ grep address@hidden /etc/aliases
>> deluxe-distributions:        fsforder, deluxe-archives, berger, 
>> address@hidden,
>> mrb:    address@hidden
>> martin: address@hidden
>> 
>> 
>> P.S. Martin Baulig: I don't mean to be pushy.  You seem to have
>> contributed more to the GNU Project than I have lately.  And both of
>> us can play the "I was here first" game.  On the other hand, I note
>> you also seem to own the Savannah account "baulig", and being
>> consistent will reduce confusion in the future.