Re: commmit-list From: lines (was Re: pginstaller -

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
>>> I read this message and wanted to reply to someone associated with the
>>> installer, unfortunately I can't.  The from address (dpage@pgfoundry.org)
>>> bounces and the committers list isn't who I want to address.
>>
>> That's been a problem all along with commit messages from the core
>> project as well.  The From: address emitted by cvs log doesn't have much
>> of anything to do with the committer's actual email address.  I dunno
>> how fixable this is, but it'd sure be nice if it could be fixed.
>
> I wonder if we should just have the "from" be the committers list and
> don't even try to get the user name.

The former is impossible, as far as I know ... but the later is doable if
that is what ppl would like to see ...

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