Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12] maint: Add .mailmap entries for patches claiming list authorship
On 04/03/2018 01:45 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/26/2018 01:41 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> The list did not author any patches, but it does rewrite the >> 'From:' header of messages sent from any domain with restrictive >> SPF policies that would otherwise prevent the message from reaching >> all list recipients. If a maintainer is not careful to undo the >> list header rewrite, and the author did not include a manual >> 'From:' line in the body to fix the munged header, then 'git am' >> happily attributes the patch to the list. Add some mailmap >> entries to correct the few that have escaped our attention; while >> we also work on improving the tooling to catch the problem in >> the future before a merge is even made. >> >> Also improve the comments occurring in the file, including line >> length improvements. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake>> --- >> >> Probably worth inclusion in 2.12-rc1, since it makes statistics >> about the release easier to follow. > > I'll include this in my qapi+misc pull for 2.12-rc2 That pull request was abandoned; Paolo, do you want to pick this up in your misc tree? -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12] maint: Add .mailmap entries for patches claiming list authorship
On 03/26/2018 01:41 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > The list did not author any patches, but it does rewrite the > 'From:' header of messages sent from any domain with restrictive > SPF policies that would otherwise prevent the message from reaching > all list recipients. If a maintainer is not careful to undo the > list header rewrite, and the author did not include a manual > 'From:' line in the body to fix the munged header, then 'git am' > happily attributes the patch to the list. Add some mailmap > entries to correct the few that have escaped our attention; while > we also work on improving the tooling to catch the problem in > the future before a merge is even made. > > Also improve the comments occurring in the file, including line > length improvements. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake> --- > > Probably worth inclusion in 2.12-rc1, since it makes statistics > about the release easier to follow. I'll include this in my qapi+misc pull for 2.12-rc2 -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature