Felix Hüttner <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Aaron,
Hi Felix, > i have submitted 4 patches to the ovs-dev yesterday and the 0-day > Robot found missmatches between my Signed-off-by line and my email > name > (e.g. > https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2022-October/398764.html). > > My last name contains german umlats (utf-8 characters). > For my signed-off-by line I use my name as it is would be written using ascii. > However my email client/my company does not allow me to change the > name used to send my emails out. > I am now unsure if this is fine and I can ignore the robot > notification , or if I should change the signed-off-by to my > "official"/utf-8 name so that the robot is happy. > > Could you maybe help me out with what is intended? I've added the dev list again, so hopefully the answer can be searchable by others. I believe either way should be fine, and in this case it is likely okay to ignore this particular warning from the robot. Maintainers (such as Ilya) can obviously override this, but there are cases with other commits where we have a slight mismatch in the names and still accept the patch (for example, people who change positions, contributors who have non-latin characters in their names, etc). If you are still concerned and want to avoid this splat in the future, generating the patch from a system with a different configured name will insert an additional "From:" field into the patch email, and that can be used by git as the author when the patch is applied. > Thanks > > -- > Felix Huettner > > > Diese E Mail enthält möglicherweise vertrauliche Inhalte und ist nur für die > Verwertung durch den vorgesehenen Empfänger bestimmt. Sollten Sie nicht der > vorgesehene Empfänger sein, setzen Sie den Absender bitte unverzüglich in > Kenntnis und löschen diese E Mail. Hinweise zum Datenschutz finden Sie > hier<https://www.datenschutz.schwarz>. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
