From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide better committer information to commit-tree.c Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:20:32 +1000 Message-ID: <1113873634.3579.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050419001126.GB21170@kroah.com> <20050419004548.GA21623@kroah.com> <1113871951.3579.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050419011236.GA22091@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 19 03:17:10 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNhMN-0007nU-Vu for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 03:17:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261252AbVDSBVF (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:21:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261253AbVDSBVF (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:21:05 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:28385 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261252AbVDSBVB (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:21:01 -0400 Received: from [150.203.247.9] (helo=[172.24.3.18]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.43 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DNhQ9-0000xk-0h; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:20:59 +0100 To: Greg KH In-Reply-To: <20050419011236.GA22091@kroah.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 (2.2.1.1-2) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 18:12 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, then why display it as one? Nobody ever displays it as one as far as I'm aware. That would be something like "mailto:$COMMITTER" > But I'll wait for Russell to wake up and start quoting the proper EU > privacy laws that he feels causes him to be forced to obfuscate his > email addresses in the changelog commits (as he did for the bk ones.) He's talking about his own interpretation of the UK's Data Protection Act, which requires you to be registered and fulfil certain other requirements if you keep personal information about people in a database. Email addresses have been ruled to be 'personal information' in this context, but this _isn't_ an email address -- and there are other get-out clauses for noncommercial situations such as this anyway, I believe. Besides, he can still obscure the author information as he unfortunately insists on doing; it's the _committer_ information which we're discussing here -- and that's always going to be himself in this case. -- dwmw2