Are there any polices on author field of the commit?

Are there any polices on author field of the commit?

[Tomas Volf]

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Hello Guix,

when looking into the git log of Guix, in particular author field of
many commits, I noticed that some commits have an author in the form of:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Igor Goryachev via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

There seems to be 326 commits with author in this format currently on
the master branch.  Does the project have some policy on expected format
of the author field?

I did not find anything regarding this in the manual.

(I personally think it is bit sub-optimal, but before contacting the
committers, I though I would check here whether there even is some
policy regarding this.)

Have a nice day,
Tomas

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Re: Are there any polices on author field of the commit?

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 12:18:37AM +0200, Tomas Volf wrote:
> 
> Hello Guix,
> 
> when looking into the git log of Guix, in particular author field of
> many commits, I noticed that some commits have an author in the form of:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Igor Goryachev via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> There seems to be 326 commits with author in this format currently on
> the master branch.  Does the project have some policy on expected format
> of the author field?
> 
> I did not find anything regarding this in the manual.
> 
> (I personally think it is bit sub-optimal, but before contacting the
> committers, I though I would check here whether there even is some
> policy regarding this.)

The best is to have the submitter's e-mail address correct in the author
field.


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