On 07/08/2026 16:13, Tobias Burnus wrote: > Richard Earnshaw via Sourceware Forge wrote: >> Richard Earnshaw (rearnsha) <[email protected]> approved the changes: >> This seems reasonable to me - it's simply reformatting information already >> stored in the GCC repository. >> OK, but please give it until Tuesday in case there are any last minute >> objections. > > I think it is by itself a good idea – but I am not sure "inactive_email" is > the right word. There is: > > * Non-primary email addresses - like in my case, my private email. > Still valid and with FSF assignment, but my work email is my > primary one. > * Old email addresses due to company-name changes - still valid but > not used for new new emails. (I have one of those too.) > * Old email addresses - not valid any more, usually because of > changing companies. > > I think inactive is fine for all of those, but we could also have > a non_primary one - esp. for some things, I might still use my > private email – which is would be more a non_primary_email than > inactive_email. > > Tobias >
The main email: entry is a list of valid email addresses that you have; the first is considered to be your primary email. This is intended for 'dead' email addresses that will no-longer reach you (eg because you've changed employer, or ISP). The forge can use this to identify some of your older commits as yours when it generates statistics. R.
