Maintainers must be reachable by email

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:53:27 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> > what's so bad about the -maintainers mailing list?
> 
> I've no problem with it for public discussion. But the original post
> in this thread from Mr. Schwendt, specifically talked a problem with
> private communication between maintainers. I can't speak as to why he
> needs private communication with another contributor.

Contributors must be able to contact sponsors. Sponsors must be able to
contact contributors. Anyone else may want to contact a package developer
privately [e.g. in case of security issues or other warnings ["don't build
your last update, it will break badly because of a really embarrassing
mistake!"]).

Now, -maintainers list (which limits communication to insiders) can be
used by fellow contributors to post something like

  "Joe, I cannot reach you by mail"

and Joe hopefully sees that message in the list traffic. But that doesn't
solve the problem. What does Joe do? If there is another e-mail address
where he can be reached, that address could receive forwarded messages
from the @fedora.redhat.com alias. And that would solve the problem.

Other things to consider:

 * Possibility to do account system lookups
   Name -> Username -> e-mail address

 * Message submission box in account system

 * Are all Extras contributors in bugzilla "fedora_contrib" group?