We have enough packages that people have added and abandoned, IMHO we shouldn't accept anymore where people are outright refusing contact information on something they're supposedly maintaining.
@voidlinux/pkg-committers What do you think?
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* Manual.md: clarify the maintainer field
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M Manual.md (5)
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https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/pull/6773.patch
https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/pull/6773.diff
If we do this, we maybe should open an issue mentioning everybody with packages that use such an address and ask them to update their packages. That way they at least get a notification over their registered github email.
We already basically assume that pkg commiters who are not in IRC are not reachable. How many times would we benefit from always being able to email contributors?
I think the statement that's being made is to let the people know that they are not using a valid address and this is no officially in violation of a package management policy. Perhaps a deadline would be set so that if the individuals in question did not respond in a timely manner their packages would be changed over to "Orphaned <nobody@voidlinux.eu>".
I'm coming at this from a technical as well as philisophical angle. I look at it that if you aren't willing to put a real email onto the package, are you actually maintaining it? If the github emails actually went somewhere, like an aliased forwarder, then that would be fine. As is those aren't even valid addresses, its just a format of a URI that github has seeded out (there isn't an MX record backing any of those subdomains, nor an A record).