From: Andrew Donnellan Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 11:05:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] parser: Unmangle From: headers that have been mangled for DMARC purposes Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20191011155151.GA19395@sigill.intra.peff.net> On 12/10/19 2:51 am, Jeff King wrote: > 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. > Yes, I was referring to the git am case, not the Patchwork case. -- Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra ajd@linux.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited