Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12] maint: Add .mailmap entries for patches claiming list authorship

[Eric Blake]

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?

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.   +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org



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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12] maint: Add .mailmap entries for patches claiming list authorship

[Eric Blake]

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



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