On Scmbug

[Kristis Makris]

I think Mark wasn't CC'ed in this.

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:28:14PM -0700, Mark Reibert wrote:
> > This is integration glue stuff - if the glue needs to translate user
> > names then it is the responsibility of the glue to manage the mapping.

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 22:41, Mark Reibert wrote:
> Not another passwd file to maintain ...

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On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 04:45, Dave Swegen wrote: 
> I have to disagree with this: As I mentioned before in a previous mail,
> not having the mapping in the bugtracker scales very poorly. If you have

> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 00:56, Dave Swegen wrote:
> The problem with that approach is that it becomes unmanageable for
large 
> installations. If, hypothetically, mozilla.org was to start using cvs
> integration it would mean that every time a dev with commit rights
> changes their email address/login, some admin would have to change their
> cvs->bz mapping too. That means that either you have to hack bz to

Is that a bad thing ? Is the bz email changing, or is the scm integration
email changing, causing a respective change in the bz email/login ? 

Besides, bz could keep a chain of email addresses and eventually accept integration requests to older email addresses. Is it a good policy to simply trash older email addresses  used as logins in bz ?