Looking over our USERINFO files we have 82 (out of our 330) users who obfuscate their e-mail address. It's rather trivial to de-obfuscate them, and we will need to for the git migration.
Have we considered asking these users if they would like a different e-mail address to be used for get when we migrate?
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:21:37 -0800, Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
Looking over our USERINFO files we have 82 (out of our 330) users who obfuscate their e-mail address. It's rather trivial to de-obfuscate them, and we will need to for the git migration.
Have we considered asking these users if they would like a different e-mail address to be used for get when we migrate?
And by trivial, I mean I wrote a script that could do that for fun ;) https://gist.github.com/1378568
If someone handling the git migration wants to e-mail all the users who have obfuscated their email addresses and ask about it, `ruby useremails.rb obfuscated list` will get you a list you can use as an e-mail To: or Bcc: line.
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
Looking over our USERINFO files we have 82 (out of our 330) users who obfuscate their e-mail address. It's rather trivial to de-obfuscate them, and we will need to for the git migration.
The list I'm maintaining already has all of the e-mails normalized.
Have we considered asking these users if they would like a different e-mail address to be used for get when we migrate? --
I had considered this, but I couldn't find a very feasible way to go about it--I'm open to suggestions.
-Chad
On 20/11/11 13:23, Chad wrote:
Have we considered asking these users if they would like a different e-mail address to be used for get when we migrate? --
I had considered this, but I couldn't find a very feasible way to go about it--I'm open to suggestions.
-Chad
E-mail them and ask? I understood Daniel Friesen e-mail as the user themselves creating a 'lower profile' e-mail account for that. You seem to think in the WMF providing those? Although the mediawiki.org domain has MX records, I don't think it's ever been used for e-mail reception, so we could use that domain for assigning each coder a mediawiki.org mailbox..
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Although the mediawiki.org domain has MX records, I don't think it's ever been used for e-mail reception, so we could use that domain for assigning each coder a mediawiki.org mailbox..
That's a good idea, and as you may have read in this month's engineering report we're looking into the feasibility of this. Right now I'm suggesting something similar to SourceForge, like @users.mediawiki.org
-Chad
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4: finding an email add08 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Although the mediawiki.org domain has MX records, I don't think it's ever been used for e-mail reception, so we could use that domain for assigning each coder a mediawiki.org mailbox..
That's a good idea, and as you may have read in this month's engineering report we're looking into the feasibility of this. Right now I'm suggesting something similar to SourceForge, like @users.mediawiki.org
Wouldn't it be considerably less effort to set the email address of people with unknown emails to something that obviously doesn't work (e.g foo@svn-migration.mediawiki.local)?
If in the future these people return, we can set up a .mailmap file to map these placeholder email addresses to their new ones.
Setting up a mail forwarding system seems like a pretty enormous and irrelevant yak to be shaving in order to improve the version control system :).
Conrad
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