From: Philip Oakley Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:15:18 GMT Subject: Re: Dealing with corporate email recycling Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87y21c2ehl.fsf@gmail.com> On 15/03/2022 01:23, Sean Allred wrote: > Philip Oakley writes: >> A broader issue for the corporate email mailbox systems is those that >> are allocated to roles. So you may have Traning1@corp.com thru >> Training9@corp.com (we had) and if that training includes practical low >> hanging fruit examples from a project, it's difficult to disambiguate >> those commits. More likely is say, having TestPC1 - TestPC9 that >> included debug commits, perhaps even with pair programming test & debug >> sessions, so allocation to individuals (rather than mailbox) becomes a >> real problem. Hopefully that's rare in Sean's case. > Yep, this wouldn't happen for us. Lots of other processes depend on > there being an individual making the commit. > > I'd also be surprised if this didn't cause process problems for other > folks, too. I was in equipment engineering where independent dedicated test equipment was more common, rather than pure software, so the potential for  role based commits from TestPC1 - TestPC9 was far more likely (for cases where it's the hardware that needs to be understood, not the engineers' choice of code ;-)