Re: Patchwork instance "Submitter" attribution and GitGitGadget

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, Philippe Blain wrote:
>
>> I’ve noticed that all (I think) patch series sent to the list using
>> Gitgitgadget are attributed to Dscho (Submitter is "Johannes Schindelin
>> via GitGitGadget") on the patchwork instance [1]. I don’t know if you
>> are aware of that or if there’s a way to fix it in patchwork…
>
> Right now, it shows "Lucius Hu via GitGitGadget". Clearly, patchwork uses
> only the email address as identifier, being unprepared to accept that the
> same email address might be used by multiple contributors.

Would it help to use the "Sender:" header?  IIUC right now GGG
records its name on "From:" with its e-mail and a human-readable
name derived from the author of the ptach, but if it can record the
true author on "From:" and leave GGG's name on the "Sender:", would
patchwork use the "From:" side of the identity instead?

If that works, it would have an additional benefit of not having to
add the in-body "From:" to override the mail-header "From:", to avoid
attributing the authorship to GGG.