Maintainers must be reachable by email

[Warren Togami]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Here's something that has come up a few times already:
> 
> A fellow Fedora Extras contributor sends a private mail, probably to be
> treated confidentially, to another contributor. But the mail is rejected
> automatically due to rigorous or misconfigured SPAM filtering, IP
> blacklists or SPF problems. The sender tries again from another account,
> e.g. GMail, and once more, the mail is rejected in the same way. This is a 
> frustrating experience for the sender. More frustrating than not getting
> a reply because perhaps a message is discarded silently. ;)
> 
> There ought to be means of making sure any contributor can be reached by
> e-mail, in particular by the account sponsor. As a last resort, a second
> alternative e-mail address should be available in a place where it could
> be looked up by fellow contributors.
> 
> Before taking this up to FESCO levels, I just want to raise awareness of
> this problem.

If such a contributor is using CVS and is otherwise uncontactable, we 
could easily get their attention by disabling their CVS access 
temporarily.  Such contributors are not very communicative and thus 
would not see this note.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com