Re: [Fsfe-uk] License Information

[Philip Hands]

Loic Dachary <address@hidden> writes:

> Philip Hands writes:
>  > 
>  > I note that savannah wants one to use @gnu.org emails where possible,
> 
>       There is a misunderstanding. When registering a new user on
> savannah, it checks if the corresponding e-mail <user>@gnu.org exists.
> If yes it refuses to create the account even if it's available on
> Savannah at the moment.

No it doesn't, because it let me create a "phil" account --- unless it
was going to go all the way through sendming me the confirmation mail,
and then reject my request at the last stage (which would be pretty
poor).

> The rationale is that someone (<user>@gnu.org) would then be unable
> to get the <user> login on Savannah and that would lead to
> unecessary inconsistencies in login names within the GNU project.

Makes sense, but doesn't seem to be the case at present.

Cheers, Phil.
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