On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 12:36 AM Arsen Arsenović via Gcc
<gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sam James via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > This comes up in #gcc on IRC every so often, so finally
> > writing an RFC.
> >
> > What?
> > ---
> >
> > I propose that MAINTAINERS be modified to be of the form,
> > adding an extra field for their GCC/sourceware account:
> >   <Name>        <Email>                <Email on gcc.gnu.org BZ / 
> > sourceware account>
> >   Joe Bloggs    joeblo...@example.com  jblo...@gcc.gnu.org
> >
> > Further, that the field must not be blank (-> must have a BZ account;
> > there were/are some without at all)!
> >
> > Why?
> > ---
> >
> > 1) This is tied to whether or not people should use their committer email
> > on Bugzilla or a personal email. A lot of people don't seem to use their
> > committer email (-> no permissions) and end up not closing bugs, so
> > pinskia (and often myself these days) end up doing it for them.
> >
> > 2) It's standard practice to wish to CC the committer of a bisect result
> > - or to CC someone who you know wrote patches on a subject area. Doing
> > this on Bugzilla is challenging when there's no map between committer
> > <-> BZ account.
> >
> > Specifically, there are folks who have git committer+author as
> > joeblo...@example.com (or maybe even coold...@example.com) where the
> > local part of the address has *no relation* to their GCC/sw account,
> > so finding who to CC is difficult without e.g. trawling through gcc-cvs
> > mails or asking overseers for help.
>
> I was also proposing (and would like to re-air that here) enforcing that
> the committer field of each commit is a (valid) @gcc.gnu.org email.
> This can be configured repo-locally via:
>
>   $ git config committer.email <yourname>@gcc.gnu.org
>
> Git has supported this since 39ab4d0951ba64edcfae7809740715991b44fa6d
> (v2.22.0).
>
> This makes a permanent association of each commit to its authors
> Sourceware account.

I'd welcome this - care to create a patch for contrib/gcc-git-customization.sh?

> This should not inhibit pushes, as the committer should be a reflection
> of who /applied/ a patch, and anyone applying a patch that can also push
> has a Sourceware account.  It also should not inhibit any workflow, as
> it should be automatic.
>
> > Summary
> > ---
> >
> > TL;DR: The proposal is:
> >
> > 1) MAINTAINERS should list a field containing either the gcc.gnu.org
> > email in full, or their gcc username (bikeshedding semi-welcome);
> >
> > 2) It should become a requirement that to be in MAINTAINERS, one must
> > possess a Bugzilla account (ideally using their gcc.gnu.org email).
>
> --
> Arsen Arsenović

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