> On Feb 22, 2017, at 11:17 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 23 February 2017 at 02:25, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> 
>>> FWIW, I don’t think that creating a new PR and closing the original one is a
>>> subpar experience for contributors, particularly if we turn off the bit that
>>> requires reviews and just turn on the thing that requires passing
>>> tests. Having been in that situation it has never once bothered me to have
>>> someone cherry pick my change and amend it.
>> 
>> Since we're squashing commits wouldn't that obliterate the original author's
>> credit for the work?
> 
> You can set "--author" when making the new squash commit (we should
> document that somewhere, since it's also useful when importing patches
> from bugs.python.org).
> 
> Although looking at https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/169 (where
> I set the author to Serhiy, since I was importing a patch he wrote),
> it seems GitHub doesn't actually *show* the Author information
> anywhere that I can find.
> 


Github automatically sets author of the squash commit based on who opened the 
PR.


—
Donald Stufft



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