From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Witten Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:12:31 -0600 Message-ID: References: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> <40aa078e1003190756h190af29ao472508aaf624efe3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: kusmabite@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 19 16:17:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nsdx0-0001x9-UJ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:17:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751212Ab0CSPMx (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:12:53 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f219.google.com ([209.85.220.219]:48390 "EHLO mail-fx0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751065Ab0CSPMw (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:12:52 -0400 Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so693113fxm.21 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:12:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=ukpMI8B61SzPgi0kFHDr8Vy9U1U75M5gJta8WGEkorQ=; b=jv+oaED12qZ2iLAuInBbJp2aK5DMzZV3Aka50EhOdgQFn3glFJcYfmAcj/yV97lZfU oarlhOc7bhkQVafEoVk/kJBTFjuOlIs+ymeeKRt12nx7Rmga5BkTdeYj20rfSZ4BI8Ld Vb9H2oI+1wlVX2kbg2LMQc3aXUCdiGW+oWIz4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=rtuhj53vNz2xvLeoo6iQkIkfWYjvKFtJ/YVobfD4CtUr0kdeBC/ql0DuvH8xNuM1QK VgBlWOVyT8zKWCavGnKTXn1l18CT/XIQeXnUgs9czyUV82N7DmC1/QqUY7N95CSMuvwj SuRTH5kOewudPmasEfS1q2EqP3NpS+K0QNsAo= Received: by 10.239.190.65 with SMTP id w1mr1670122hbh.126.1269011571160; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:12:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:05, Michael Witten wrote: > > It's useless to spoof the From field because many email services won't > send it, a point I already covered in the email you quoted. > > When a patch is finally emailed, it's the From field that is used for > Author attribution. > > You see? Your identity has been tied to whatever email service you > happen to use at any given time rather than to something with more > long term stability. A lot of trouble could probably be avoided if the Authorship information could be sent as something separate from the From field. I don't think it would be quite as powerful as having a uuid, but it would be less invasive and probably practically as effective.