On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 02:42:49AM +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote: > >> where a possible solution was to get senders to use in-body From > >> headers even when sending their own patches. > [...] > I'm not sure this solution is correct. > > If I take a patch from Andrew, backport it, and send to the list, Andrew > will be listed in the in-body From. However, he shouldn't be the sender > from the Patchwork point of view: he shouldn't get the patch status > notification emails - I should. We don't want to spam an original author > if their patch is backported to several different releases, or picked up > and resent in someone else's series, etc etc. So unless I've > misunderstood something, we can't rely on the in-body from matching > Patchwork's understanding of the sender. Yeah, it may be that patchwork and git have two different priorities here. From my perspective, the problem is getting the patch into a git repo with the right author name. But patchwork may want to make the distinction between author and sender. -Peff
