> On 2014-Jul-01, at 13:02, Sean Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Jonathan Roelofs <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/1/14, 12:28 PM, Alp Toker wrote:
> Specifically the problem I've been seeing is that people using the website are
> unable to CC mailing list-based developers. As a result I don't get copied in 
> on
> responses to my review comments, and rarely get any kind of direct mail with
> threading. You end up having to dig up historic responses in the mailing list
> archive which becomes tedious.
> 
> Often the CC on website reviews will include arbitrary names of people who 
> have
> website accounts, while excluding the actual code owners and recent committers
> who you'd expect would be relevant. This leads me to guess that the website is
> actively blocking the email addresses of LLVM developers from getting added to
> the CC list unless they open an account on the service.
> 
> In fact as far as I can tell, mailing list-based developers are *completely*
> excluded from the CC list visible on the website. This creates a really poor
> workflow with responses often getting missed, and the right people not seeing
> patches (and conversely, it looks like people who aren't really relevant end 
> up
> getting pressured into reviewing a patch in some area).
> 
> +1
> 
> I've found this frustrating, especially coupled with the fact that folks' 
> email addresses, phab usernames, and svn usernames are not always obviously 
> related to each other.
> 
> 
> +1
>  
> It would be nice to enforce (or very strongly suggest) a bijection on phab 
> usernames and svn usernames, and then display them in the tool as something 
> like: `jsmith2 "John Smith" <[email protected]>` (for some hypothetical 
> developer).
> 
> 
> I don't think that enforcing username conventions is the right solution 
> though. Personally I think the easiest and most convenient thing is to just 
> be able to use an email address and have phab treat that interchangeably with 
> the phab username (or even as the canonical name with the phab username as a 
> convenient alias). I think this is what bugzilla does and it seems to work 
> well.

+1

> Also, it would be nice if essentially everywhere that the phab username is 
> displayed it just used the real name. (the real name is going to end up in 
> the commit somehow anyway)
> 
> -- Sean Silva

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