[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Anonymous contributions
From:       Nate Graham <nate () kde ! org>
Date:       2019-04-16 20:00:24
Message-ID: 16a27bc79a2.f2fc53b126298.9202746176660961250 () kde ! org
[Download RAW message or body]




 ---- On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:38:04 -0600 Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> wrote ----
 > This hook was implemented in the first place to ensure that people had correctly setup Git on their \
local machine.  > On some versions of Git (maybe all?) it will automatically use the local user account \
name as the name.  > This leads to people committing as "me", "user" and "nobody" without meaning to, but \
which still leads to a situation in which the metadata of a commit has ended up being useless.  > I'd \
rather maintain a small list of exceptions for those who do have names without a space in them to ensure \
that for the vast majority of our users do correctly get informed they need to fix their local setup.  > \
Cheers,Ben

The only people who have commit access have been specifically granted this privilege. I think it's fair \
to say that all of them have git set up correctly on their machines by the time they've been approved for \
commit access. More casual contributors who exhibit this issue always have someone else to push the \
commit for them, and that person is already responsible for verifying their authorship info.

Nate


[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]