The virtmaint user account is used to subscribe the fedora-virt-maint@redhat.com list for CVS and bugzilla mails
The mails sent by CVS bounce:
virtmaint@fedoraproject.org (expanded from qemu-owner@fedoraproject.org): unknown user: "virtmaint"
I'd expect virtmaint@fedoraproject.org to forward to fedora-virt-maint@redhat.com ?
Note: we usually keep the account "inactive" so only list admins of fedora-virt-maint can login by requesting a password reset which is then trapped by mailman. I've just tried making the account active and sending a test mail and that bounces too.
Is this account used just for the alias? Or is it used to assign packages to and stuff in pkgdb?
It's used for watchbugzilla and watchcommits in pkgdb
K, in that case we're going to flag it a bot, I think at that point you won't be able to log in or out, but you also won't have to worry about bounces, password expirations, etc.
okay, I thought toshio had already made it a "pseudo account"
As I said previously to toshio, if we can't log in, we can't add virtmaint to more packages - e.g. just yesterday I added it to libguestfs
It seems to be working now, however. Is it took a while for the inactive->active change to take effect? Or has someone else fixed it somehow?
In order to add virtmaint to more packages you need to list the account in a cvsadmin request.
We'll add some horrible UI to the pkgdb to make this self-serve in the mid-term future (probably over the summer/fall) and try to figure out some better UI once we have that functional.
I thought that I had set it to be a bot account at the same time as I set up f-community to be a bot but apparently I was wrong. It's somewhat of a good thing, though, as it looks like fasClient (the program that generates the aliases) isn't handling the bot accounts right. Looking at what needs to happen there.
Okay, server hotfixed and the changes made to the db.
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