Re: [Tiki-devel] New requirement for new developers - SourceForge email alias

[Marc L. <ma...@ma...>]

+1

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Filipus Klutiero <ch...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
> two years ago, I removed the requirement for new developers to subscribe
> to the CVS/SVN mailing list. At that time, we had 12 essential steps to
> become a new developer, which seemed heavy for our wiki way. We
> currently have over 6000 commits per year, and about 10000 messages/year
> in total on the list. Subscribing to the list is now only listed as "a
> good thing to do" on How to get commit access and 3rules.
>
> Therefore, it is now officially insufficient to comment a commit by
> simply replying to the list if you want to be sure the committer sees
> the reply. We should send the message directly to the committer,
> normally copying the list. All our developers must have an email box,
> but the problem is to find which address should be used, as we have no
> SourceForge username to tiki.org username mapping AFAIK.
>
> The good thing is that SourceForge also offers a @users.sourceforge.net
> mail alias to all its users. The bad thing is that the default Mail
> Alias Behavior appears to be "Accept mail from SourceForge.net internal
> hosts only" (maybe only for old accounts), meaning mail to the alias
> bounces by default. The preference needs to be set to "Accept all mail".
>
> To avoid having to request each developer to change this setting, one by
> one, I'm thinking of adding a requirement for new developers to be
> reachable by email via their SourceForge mail alias, unless someone opposes.
>
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