So the firstname.lastname removal has been done and went fairly well with one exception. Many of the ambassadors use firstname.lastname when dealing with other people. They like a good, professional looking email address. Unfortunately, not everyone thinks of this when they're creating their account name and trying to be an ambassador with fluffyone23(a)fedoraproject.org may cause issues. I've added a few exceptions but I really don't want our group maintaining this list. We're not in the business of user administration, that always gets delegated to the specific group owners/admins. This puts us in an awkward position because of the sensitive nature of the alises file we can't just let everyone edit this file. Here's what I'd like to propose: Thomas Chung has offered to maintain this list for the ambassadors. Since its a manual intervention we're not as open to attack/collisions as we were when it was automated. We'll continue to use CVS so we get notifications when a change goes out. Additionally I've given the following guidelines to Thomas should we chose to go this route: * All alises for the ambassadors must be firstname.lastname(a)fp.o * Exceptions are made by Thomas Chung for the ambassadors only. He has the final say as to whether someone is eligible for the alias * Careful precautions must be made to not cause collisions. (This would include looking out for suspicious aliases like senior.admin(a)fedoraproject.org Does anyone have any issues / concerns with this?

> * All alises for the ambassadors must be firstname.lastname(a)fp.o As in they should not be using their account names as aliases? I would prefer to continue using what I use currently. Rahul

Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: >> >> * All alises for the ambassadors must be firstname.lastname(a)fp.o > > As in they should not be using their account names as aliases? I would > prefer to continue using what I use currently. the username(a)fedoraproject.org will continue but an extra alias can be created for them by request of firstname.lastname(a)fedoraproject.org. It was available to them up until just last week. -Mike

I don't like this. I don't like to work for a company who give the name of my email address, who choice the style of my hair, the style of my shirt's.

it is a "nice to have" ... not a "must" to have a firstname.lastname(a)fp.o ... Why everybody want to discuss decissions? Sometimes, I thought I better took the red pill ... Regards GeroldKa(a)fedoraproject.org

No. It's fine; If you have some 'strange looking' login/account-name like the fluffyone23 you mentioned, it's better to go with FirstName.LastName(a)fp.o. For me oliver(a)fp.o is fine. :-)