Re: [Tools-discuss] tooling: Change of address Q.

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

Cool!

So, is changing email on https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/ietf still necessary,
or would all those subscriptions be also changed when changing datatracker preferred email ?

Cheers
    Toerless

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 09:40:18AM -0500, Robert Sparks wrote:
> No - we've had a lot of pressure from people that led to using the marked
> primary email address.
> 
> We could consider adding an "always CC" flag to the email configuration or
> something like it if there's enough demand, but it would be a large change
> to do so.
> 
> What is your use case? Would it satisfy your needs to add the addresses to
> the documents Notify field (on the document's main page). Any addresses
> there will be copied in correspondence from the datatracker, and will appear
> in the draft-<name>-notify and draft-<name>-all aliases.
> 
> RjS
> 
> 
> On 5/26/21 6:48 PM, Greg Mirsky wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> > I've chosen to list two email addresses, the feature that is supported
> > in XMLv3. I wanted the correspondence addressed to draft-<foo>@ietf.org
> > <http://ietf.org> to be directed at both. But, as I see it, the
> > datatracker uses only one, whichever is listed first. Do you of any
> > plans to modify that behavior in the datatracker?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Greg
> > 
> > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 1:12 PM Robert Sparks <[e-mail]
> > <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> > 
> >     The draft-<foo>*@ietf.org <http://ietf.org> and
> >     <acronym>[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> aliases are
> >     regenerated on-demand, or with a high refresh rate (hourly).
> > 
> >     If the collaborator changes their preferred email address in the
> >     datatracker, it will be used in all of those aliases after the next
> >     generation.
> > 
> >     RjS
> > 
> >     On 5/26/21 12:50 PM, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> >     > So, i run repeatedly into the problem of co-authors or just
> >     > contributors to my WG changing association/email-address, and i am
> >     > right now not 100% sure about the BCP how they should deal with it.
> >     >
> >     > So, https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/ietf/
> >     <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/ietf/><email address>
> >     > and global change is clearly part of the BCP.
> >     >
> >     > But in my past experience, it seems that this will not change
> >     the email
> >     > addresses of the collaborator on draft-ietf-wg-whatever. And i don't
> >     > even know if/how there is a way to change those email addresses.
> >     Is there
> >     > any tool for WG chairs or the contributor themselves to bulk change
> >     > the email adress on those draft aliases ? (even a single draft has
> >     > quite a few aliases created).
> >     >
> >     > Cheers
> >     >      Toerless
> >     >
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