[RFC] geographical, etc. info about kde developers and more

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Friday 31 May 2002 17:17, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
(...)
> - a cvs-account table. mostly the current "accounts", but without the
>   email-address.

No, do not remove the emails there, please!

If you are not subscribed to kde-cvs mailing list, (or from a normal cvs log), 
you have only the account names, not the email addresses. It is easy to grep 
the account file, but if you have to search part of the info in another file, 
it becomes more difficult.

(...)

As I am writing this email, I might also answer the following questions.

>the advantages are obvious, but
>- who except me wants this? would anybody enter his data into the
>  system?

Not me! The problem is what is done with all this (unnecessary) data. We got 
already spam through emails, I do not want additional spam through snail 
mail, even less for wishing me my birthday or such stuff...

>- who is going to implement it? i volunteer for the core part, but need
>  support from the maintainers of the affected web pages and other
>  services.

Yes, a crucial point. Non-valid data is even worse than no data.

We have already this problem for KWord's RTF filter where the old maintainer 
is lost.

>- technical questions remain (use a real database or (xml-)files in cvs, 
>  etc.?)

For the cvs accounts, please leave it as simple as it is. If you would need a 
full database for this, you are lost! (Think about KDatabase non compilable 
and you want to reach its maintainer. How?)

>
> greetings

Have a nice day/evening/night!