From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:51:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parser: Unmangle From: headers that have been mangled for DMARC purposes
Message-ID: <20191011155151.GA19395@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87pnj3thja.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net>

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 02:42:49AM +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote:

> >> where a possible solution was to get senders to use in-body From
> >> headers even when sending their own patches.
> [...]
> I'm not sure this solution is correct.
> 
> If I take a patch from Andrew, backport it, and send to the list, Andrew
> will be listed in the in-body From. However, he shouldn't be the sender
> from the Patchwork point of view: he shouldn't get the patch status
> notification emails - I should. We don't want to spam an original author
> if their patch is backported to several different releases, or picked up
> and resent in someone else's series, etc etc. So unless I've
> misunderstood something, we can't rely on the in-body from matching
> Patchwork's understanding of the sender.

Yeah, it may be that patchwork and git have two different priorities
here. From my perspective, the problem is getting the patch into a git
repo with the right author name. But patchwork may want to make the
distinction between author and sender.

-Peff