[haiku-development] Re: RFC: @haiku-os.org email address policy
- From: Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 01:39:46 +0100
Hi,
2010/1/7 Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I disagree with that. As I feel these email aliases are given out to
>> give contributors a trustworthy and official appearance for contacts
>> with third parties (and explicitly not as a 'gift' to good
>> contributors). I find that using real names looks more professional
>> than nicknames. But hey, perhaps the ones that will be handed the
>> email addresses will not care about professionalism. I don't have
>> enough experience to judge on that.
>
> The counterpoint to that is that outsiders are most likely familiar
> with e.g. the core developers via svn commits, in which case using the
> same name as that used as svn username would make it more clear who
> you're communicating with. Since email generally includes a separate
> real name header anyways it seems somewhat redundant to force that
> requirement on the username as well.
Okay, I'm convinced that it is okay to use nicknames and in
combination with the 'real name' during official correspondence.
N>
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