email address anti-spam encoding in portfiles

[James Berry]

On May 16, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> We'd also have to remove the id keyword from all Portfiles, since  
> user names are email addresses.

Yes. A couple of possibilities there: (1) convince macosforge to move  
away from name at domain for their user names, relying on name only, or  
(2) find a way to let svn see (and report) only the user end of that,  
or (3) move from $Id$ to $Revision$ or remove the keyword altogether.  
Note that (1) or (2) would also solve a number of other related  
issues, such as on trac, cia.

James.

> On May 16, 2007, at 8:12 PM, James Berry wrote:
>
>> Following discussion with several of you, and more thought, my  
>> thinking is now:
>>
>> 	(1) Obfuscate plain text email addresses by using the form:
>>
>> 		- tld/domain/username
>> 			user at bar.com ==> com/bar/user
>>
>> 		- if there are multiple components in the hostname, only the dot  
>> before the tld is turned into a slash:
>> 			user at foo.bar.com ==> com/foo.bar/user
>>
>> 		- If the domain/tld is macports.org, then it may be dropped:
>> 			user at macports.org ==> user
>>
>> 		Note that this is machine reversible, and also fairly easy for a  
>> user to produce manually, both of which are important considerations.
>>
>> 	(2) If a Portfile is submitted with a maintainer email address  
>> containing an @, we will accept it as such (this is up to the  
>> submitter/maintainer).
>> 	      We're providing a means by which port maintainers may  
>> obfuscate their address, but not mandating that they do so.
>>
>> 		Note that this is also a machine detectable situation.
>>
>> 	(3) There are a number of other cases in which email addresses  
>> may show up. This doesn't attempt to deal with all of them yet.  
>> Small steps.
>>
>> 		Among these are:
>>
>> 			- CIA commit pages
>> 			- Trac commits and perhaps bug reports too
>> 			- Mailing list archives
>> 			- irc logs
>>
>> If I don't hear any contradictory pleas soon, I'm going to move  
>> ahead with this, perhaps including auto fixing all the portfiles.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Ballard
> http://kevin.sb.org
> eridius at macports.org
> http://www.tildesoft.com
>
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