On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:

> OK.
>
> Just wondering, if a committer already has a github account under a
> different email address, what do they do?
>
> -Alex
>

GitHub lets you add multiple emails to the github account.  It will be up
to the committer to switch the 'default' email id which the post-commit
email hook uses when sending out emails.

I think Dasa had sent a couple of relevant github wiki pages a few emails
ago about this.

Thanks,
Om


>
>
> On 5/6/13 4:03 PM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Om,
> >>
> >> Can you update the proposal as to whether you have to use your a.o
> email or
> >> if allowing aliases works?
> >>
> >> -Alex
> >>
> >>
> > I have posted the proposal here:
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Proposal+-+Github+based+White
> > board
> >
> > All apache.org emails are configured to be aliases for committer's
> personal
> > email ids.  So, you will need to add the committer's personal email id to
> > the commits@f.a.o list in any case.
> >
> > The only advantage of adding the apache.org email id in GitHub would be
> > that the 'from' field will have the apache.org email id.  This keeps it
> > consistent with Apache Git's emails.
> >
> > So, I have updated the proposal to say that it is 'recommended, but not
> > compulsory' for adding the apache.org email address as the default
> email in
> > GitHub.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Om
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On 5/6/13 3:35 PM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Any other thoughts regarding this process?
> >>>
> >>> If not, I would like to test this workflow with a couple of volunteer
> >>> committers.  Anyone wants to volunteer? :-)
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Om
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 5/2/13 6:21 PM, "Dasa Paddock" <dpadd...@esri.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 6.  The committer adds their <committerAlias>@apache.org email
> >>>> address as
> >>>>>>> their default email in their github account.
> >>>>>> Anyway around to do this? I assume this is so email to the mailing
> >> list
> >>>> re
> >>>>>> changes are not rejected.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm not sure, but maybe it's enough to just add your
> apache.orgaddress
> >>>> to
> >>>>> your Email Settings [1] and set the repo's user.email config so that
> >> the
> >>>>> apache.org address is used as the commit author [2].
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [1]: https://github.com/settings/emails
> >>>>> [2]: https://help.github.com/articles/setting-your-email-in-git
> >>>>>
> >>>> I'm ok adding aliases for the committers who don't want to use their
> >>>> apache.org.  I think I did so for Om in order for him to try this.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Alex Harui
> >>>> Flex SDK Team
> >>>> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> >>>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alex Harui
> >> Flex SDK Team
> >> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> >> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
> >>
> >>
>
> --
> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Team
> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>
>

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