]] Ian Jackson > I think that, with some safeguards[1], this would be a good thing to > offer people. If nothing else people have often used @d.o addresses > in Debian work, where the addresses live on after they move on, and we > should definitely encourage even an emeritus member to be reachable > for answering questions or whatever, as their time and interest > permits.
I don't think we should do that. Once they've left the project, they don't and shouldn't have the ability to answer for Debian in any way. > Unfortunately it would mean that such people would still need some > kind of login on Debian systems, so that they could update the email > forwarding. But it wouldn't have to have the wide powers of an active > DD/DM account. > > What do people think ? How hard would this be ? It would make our already too complex setups even more complex, but that's not the reason why I think it's a bad idea. > The emeritus member should refrain from advertising the @debian.org > email address, so outgoing emails, web pages, etc., should be updated > to show a different address. Obviously the point of retaining the old > address is to avoid having to deal with a massive array of existing > places where the address is published, but there should be no active > uses, and any particular instances should be changed on requests by > Debian. The forwarding would have to be withdrawn if the emeritus > member continued to advertise their @d.o address, or if they did > something sufficiently bad that we would want to disassociate > ourselves from them more completely. I don't think we're in a position where we would be able to effectively police this, and so I don't think we should try either. Cheers, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
