Rahul Jain wrote: > > Not everyone likes their email address to be mentioned. I have to > now go any remove this person's email address for the patch that I > checked into the repository. > > We really need some kind of policy here. I don't know if there is > one already. In case its not there, How about... > > Unless the patch submitter specifically asks not to: > the person's name and email address will be provided > in the commit message. > > Request to omit the email address may be entertained if > mentioned at the time the patch was submitted. Once committed, > its tedious to make edits on all the affected files. > > Request to omit name's will not be entertained, i.e. no anonymous > submissions.
I like this policy, but I would love more to have a more strict policy that includes the usage of a common format for changes. If we use a DTD, we can place the name/email pairs in the DTD and specify this guy doesn't want the mail address to be specified. Then the XSLT stylesheet will format the output depending on such a flag, but we keep track of all people and their mail addresses. What do you think? Stefano.
