Multiple emails on mozillians.org

[Pierros Papadeas]

Hello all,

It is time to re-start a bit this mailing list :) I would like to apologize
for the silence lately and commit on regular updates/feedback/openness in
this forum.

On topic: We shipped multiple emails functionality on mozillians.org
profiles

tl;dr version: You can now associate multiple emails to your mozillians.org
profile

Background
Since the start, users of mozillians.org were able to associate only one
email per profile. This was used both as email displayed on your profile
(depending on your privacy settings) but most importantly as the email used
to login using Persona.

Rationale
Most of us own and use multiple emails everyday. Personal, business, alias
and any combo in between. Even within various Mozilla properties people
have associated different profiles with different emails (eg. SuMo account
vs. Bugzilla email). Although we need to recognize and respect the will of
some people to use different emails as different (separate) online
personas, we also need to find ways to make identity management and
consolidation easier for people that choose to use multiple emails, under
the same name.
Being able to associate multiple emails under one mozillians.org profile,
presents us with really interesting advantages. For once, you can login on
websites that check for your mozillians.org account using any email
associated with your Persona account. Also other mozillians would be able
to look you up using any of your emails. Finally, from a metrics standpoint
we will be able to effectively deduplicate accounts and metrics/statistics
across different systems of Mozilla.

Multiple Accounts?
We don‘t expect many people to have multiple profiles in mozillians.org. We
cannot know for sure, only anecdotally. People with multiple accounts
should contact us ( #commtools on IRC or open a bug here) for help merging,
or they can choose to use one of them and delete the others.
What is next?

Mozillians.org dev team is working tirelessly on new features and
enhancements that would make mozillians.org even easier to use and more
robust as a source of truth about all things mozillians. You can check our
our roadmap here[1], follow our development and contribute on github[2] and
join our discussions here[3] (this list!)

~pierros

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozillians
[2] https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians
[3] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-community-tools