[OpenWrt-Devel] disabling email addresses used in OpenWrt "MAINTAINER" fields

[Bjørn Mork]

I see that the email mess isn't sorted out yet:


   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<blogic at openwrt.org>
    (reason: 550 5.1.1 <blogic at openwrt.org>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail.openwrt.org.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.1.1 <blogic at openwrt.org>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table
550 5.1.1 <blogic at openwrt.org>... User unknown
<<< 554 5.5.1 Error: no valid recipients

Reporting-MTA: dns; canardo.mork.no
Arrival-Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 13:24:14 +0200

Final-Recipient: RFC822; blogic at openwrt.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.openwrt.org
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <blogic at openwrt.org>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table
Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 13:38:58 +0200



At the same time, I see that this address is listed as the maintainer of
a number of OpenWrt packages and targets:

bjorn at canardo:/usr/local/src/openwrt$ git remote -v
origin  git://git.openwrt.org/openwrt.git (fetch)
origin  git://git.openwrt.org/openwrt.git (push)

bjorn at canardo:/usr/local/src/openwrt$ git grep -E 'MAINTAINER:=.*blogic at openwrt.org' origin/master
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-adsl-fw/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-adsl-mei/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-adsl/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-atm/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-deu/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-hcd/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-ifxos/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-ptm/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-tapi/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-vdsl-mei/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-vdsl/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/kernel/lantiq/ltq-vmmc/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/network/config/ltq-adsl-app/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/network/services/mdns/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/network/utils/umbim/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/network/utils/wwan/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/system/fstools/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/system/mountd/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/system/procd/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/system/ubox/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/utils/ubi-utils/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:package/utils/ugps/Makefile:PKG_MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:target/linux/ipq806x/Makefile:MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:target/linux/lantiq/Makefile:MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:target/linux/mediatek/Makefile:MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:target/linux/octeon/Makefile:MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>
origin/master:target/linux/ramips/Makefile:MAINTAINER:=John Crispin <blogic at openwrt.org>



Does this mean that OpenWrt now consider these packages and targets
unmaintained? Please clarify by updating either Makefiles or mail
server.  Thanks.

I have so far tried not to read too much into the messages regarding the
project split, but this stupid game to demostrate who is in charge of
the email server seems demonstrate the real problems pretty well. Mike
responded to that with

 "Email forwarding was temporarily disabled following the LEDE announcement"

But the fact that it is still "temporarily disabled" shows that he
either isn't speaking for those in control of the email forwarding, or
is lying about it being temporary.  In good faith I'll assume the first.

But either way, the OpenWrt project just died for me.  It appears to be
unmanaged.


Bjørn
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