Re: git config user.email

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:33, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On tor, 2010-07-22 at 09:18 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:04, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> We need to decide what email addresses committers will use on the new
>> >>> git repository when they commit.
>> >>
>> >> Are you are aware that we already have a list of "approved" addresses
>> >> for the committers?
>> >
>> > Are you referring to the mapping list for the git mirror, or something else?
>>
>> Yes, the mapping list.
>
> The mapping list was originally composed by me on a whim based on what I
> thought people's email addresses tended to be.  It wouldn't hurt to
> ponder Robert's points at this time.

Agreed. And per the discussion at the developer meeting, even if we
don't limit what can be used, we should at least give committters a
chance to pick a different address from the one they are on that list
with today.


*Personally*, I'd prefer to keep using my main email address for
commits. This is what I use for all other projects (postgresql or
others) that I commit or contribute to. It's an address on a domain I
own, and fully control. It's a pretty clear indication of my
"identity" in the opensource world, whereas close to nobody would know
who mha@postgresql.org is. Plus, email to it tends to be delivered
much quicker and more reliably than the @postgresql.org one - though
that has improvied significantly lately.

But I can also see Roberts point. If a committer doesn't have a
*stable* address, we won't be able to track this committer through
time. Say if he changes job and gets a new address, we can start using
that one for new commits, but not for old ones. And since we grant
commit status to the *person* and not the representative of a company,
using a company email address doesn't quite match up there.

When it comes to using generic @gmail.com or whatever addresses,
that's somewhere in between. For a lot of people, those can definitely
be considered stable, because a change in employment, a move to a
different country, things like that, won't affect the email address
(which it would be if it was an ISP-specific one for example - that
might not transfer to a new country or even a new city).


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