Kurt Lieber wrote:
What purpose does this serve? This would create all sorts of confusion.
Right now, you can meet someone in IRC and make a reasonable assumption
that their email address is <irc nick>@gentoo.org. This would confuse
things horribly imo. What about people like me that span multiple roles?
What happens when someone (again, like me) starts out in one area, moves to
another, then still a third and finally a fourth? We're going to be
updating aliases all over the place and for what?
How does any of this make Gentoo Linux a better distro? Does it reduce
bugs? Improve QA? Can I add -staff.gentoo.org to my CFLAGS and get a
0.00001% speed increase?
There is no technical reason why any of this is necessary and it doesn't
provide any tangible benefits that I can see. If a user really wants to
know someone's role within the project, they can go look it up on the web
site.
--kurt
You're preaching to the choir here (at least in me), I don't personally
understand why everyone doesn't just have an @gentoo.org address - it
seems the simplest possible solution, but it was the devs that seem to
see it as some sort of a sin.
Whatever subdomain gets implemented now is only going to be half-used
anyway because of the number of people grandfathered in from previous
arrangements with @g.o addresses.
Personally I can't think of the last time I saw a company that forced
one division of its' employees to use a different email address. Seems
to me like telling all of the secretaries at a law firm that they have
to use @secretaries.firm.com
That all said, I am but one person with one opinion on the matter.
Scott.
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