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Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding

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On 15/11/17 12:53, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Someone who was sort-of-MIA said on -private that they would like to
> keep their @debian.org email forwarding indefinitely, as they move to
> emeritus status.

One alternative that wasn't mentioned in this thread: what if Debian
stops providing @debian.org email addresses and phases out existing
addresses?

I'm not advocating this as my preferred solution, but it is useful to
have all options on the table in a discussion about the email addresses.

Benefits of deprecating all debian.org email addresses:

- less things for DSA to maintain

- less problems with forwarding from debian.org to other mail servers
that enable strict SPF policies[1]

- people would be forced to use (or create) some other email address for
their packaging work (debian/control, changelog) and these addresses
would still be contactable after they leave the project

Disadvantages:

- for people who want a distinct email address for their Debian
contributions, a little extra effort to create and monitor an extra
private email address for their packaging work

- existing addresses will still linger around for a long time

- the use of the debian.org addresses is a strong way for people to show
that they are doing things on behalf of Debian, the loss of this benefit
could be mitigated partially by using team addresses to send some types
of communication

Regards,

Daniel


1. http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Forwarding

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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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