On 06/29/2018 02:19 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 02:04:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On 6/28/18 17:14, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
2 Reported-by:
5 Author:
6 Reviewed-by:
7 Tested-by:
Should these include email addresses?
One reason I include emails is that sometimes the names are spelled
in inconsistent ways or don't include ASCII characters at all. An
email address is always clear.
I don't know if emails are actually a good idea to include. Those
tend to change when folks change company, and a lot of people here
use company-based email addresses to discuss and work on patches.
Why would that be a problem? It's not a stable identifier, but it also
does not change very often. Also, those who submit patches from company
addresses do it because the patch comes from that company, and I think
it's a good idea to keep that information.
While it might not be the primary goal, I assume people will try to
process those fields by various scripts (generating stats, charts, ...).
E-mails seem to be easier to correlate than just names.
regards
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