On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 03:48:35PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - I've made the "private email aliases considered harmful" point [10], > in a somehow unrelated thread. I ask you to watch out for interactions > in Debian that could happen only through private email addresses. > There are some cases where they are warranted (e.g. security or > privacy concerns), but having regular activities of a team going > through private email aliases harms us in so many ways. Please point > me to project areas that could benefit from improvements on this > front, ... unless you can just go ahead and fix the issue! Sorry for reviving and old email. To what extend do you think this should apply - even at individual package level? I ask this because of the following: recently I had a 1-1 discussion with a co-maintainer of one of my packages, which went between our personal emails. I quite disliked this (since it will be buried in our mailboxes), but email conversations seem simpler than going through the BTS for all discussions. On the other hand, http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject discourages requesting Alioth projects for smaller packages, so in that sense it encourages people contacting directly the maintainers via their emails, instead of having the archived, indexable lists. Could/should Debian make it easier for each package to have an own email list (i.e. making it easier to have "1-person team maintenance")? Or is BTS enough? (I don't think so, since it doesn't have a simple canonical entry point for all packages) regards, iustin
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