On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 11:23, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: > Or consider the case you get a bug report not copied to the public > mailing lists from someone you don't know. Then I would still expect to > be allowed to attribute a commit via Reported-by/CC to that person, as > it seems in his/her interest to get the bug fixed and be notified, > unless explicitly requested otherwise.
FWIW, in this kind of situation, I generally try to explicitly ask the submitter if they're OK with my adding a reported-by tag, just as a matter of politeness. Not everybody is OK with having their email address publicly recorded on mailing list archives and in git history forever. thanks -- PMM
