From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>,
jrnieder@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patchwork instance "Submitter" attribution and GitGitGadget
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 15:35:54 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2101071534440.2213@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqiml4bsra.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
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Hi Junio,
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, Philippe Blain wrote:
> >
> >> I’ve noticed that all (I think) patch series sent to the list using
> >> Gitgitgadget are attributed to Dscho (Submitter is "Johannes Schindelin
> >> via GitGitGadget") on the patchwork instance [1]. I don’t know if you
> >> are aware of that or if there’s a way to fix it in patchwork…
> >
> > Right now, it shows "Lucius Hu via GitGitGadget". Clearly, patchwork uses
> > only the email address as identifier, being unprepared to accept that the
> > same email address might be used by multiple contributors.
>
> Would it help to use the "Sender:" header? IIUC right now GGG
> records its name on "From:" with its e-mail and a human-readable
> name derived from the author of the ptach, but if it can record the
> true author on "From:" and leave GGG's name on the "Sender:", would
> patchwork use the "From:" side of the identity instead?
To tie up that loose end: GMail seemed to insist in my tests on replacing
the `From:` header, therefore we cannot implement this `Sender:` idea, not
using GMail to deliver the GitGitGadget patch series at least.
Ciao,
Dscho
> If that works, it would have an additional benefit of not having to
> add the in-body "From:" to override the mail-header "From:", to avoid
> attributing the authorship to GGG.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-07 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-18 18:51 Patchwork instance "Submitter" attribution and GitGitGadget Philippe Blain
2020-01-20 12:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-01-21 17:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-07 14:35 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2021-01-07 22:37 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-01-08 15:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
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