Re: ftpmaster: Archive mails send to sponsors too

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> writes:

> Hi
>
> yesterday night I merged a small patch from Thomas Viehmann into our
> archive software which enables it to send a copy of all mails to the
> person sponsoring the upload.
>
> This is in affect for all *future* uploads, not for any package which
> already hit the queues (like those in NEW right now).
>
> We do
>   - only sent the extra copy if it is a sourceful upload, to not spam
>     buildd admins,
>   - only sent the mails to sponsors who did *not* disable their
>     @debian.org address.
>
>
> For those interested, the process works similar to:
>   - We look if the Debian login attached to the key signing the upload has
>     an active @debian.org address.
>   - If that is the case we look for all uids on that key that look like
>     an email address and compare them with the Maintainer: and
>     Changed-By: field in the .changes file.
>   - If there is no match, ie. none of the "emails" of the key uids is
>     in those fields, the @debian.org mail is added to the set of valid
>     receivers.

What about DMs? They could potentially sponsor an upload too. Or do
they have an @debian.org address too?

MfG
        Goswin