Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding

From	Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding
Date	2017-11-17 23:10 +0100
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]] 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  The forwarding would have to be withdrawn if the emeritus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

Thread

Emeritus status, and email forwarding Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2017-11-15 13:00 +0100
  Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2017-11-15 13:50 +0100
    Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2017-11-15 17:50 +0100
      Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> - 2017-11-17 20:30 +0100
  Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-11-15 15:50 +0100
    Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> - 2017-11-15 16:20 +0100
      Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2017-11-15 17:10 +0100
        Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2017-11-15 17:30 +0100
          Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-11-15 18:20 +0100
          Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2017-11-16 00:30 +0100
            Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2017-11-16 12:20 +0100
        Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2017-11-16 01:10 +0100
  Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> - 2017-11-17 23:10 +0100
    Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> - 2017-11-18 11:20 +0100
      Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> - 2017-11-18 12:40 +0100
  Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> - 2017-12-07 12:00 +0100
    Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2017-12-07 14:30 +0100

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