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Re: Renovating debbugs (was Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?)



On Thu, 29 May 2025, Colin Watson wrote:n
> On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 02:22:00PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Also, I don't really see how to keep all the e-mail features it currently offers,
> > while hiding email addresses. I quite often look up email addresses in bugs
> > and contact people directly, definitly more than once per months.
> 
> One possibility would be for the BTS to offer a way to follow up privately,
> similar to the NNNNN-submitter@ addresses.  (This idea would obviously need
> refinement.)

My current thinking is to solve this (and DKIM) by rewriting the
senders of messages to something like:

Don Armstrong <user-530149da-b58b-4a3f-aaaf-ade435f4c26f@bugs.debian.org>

where messages to that address could potentially be forwarded to the
end user, possibly with people being able to opt-in or opt out of
e-mail forwarding at any time.

This would also handle some privacy requests by allowing people to
request that we remove their address, and we'd only retain their
UUIDv5.

-- 
Don Armstrong                      https://www.donarmstrong.com

"The trouble with you, Ibid" he said, "is that you think you're the
biggest bloody authority on everything"
 -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p146


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