Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Requiring gentoo.git committers to use their @gentoo.org address

[Manuel Rüger]

On 09.07.2018 10:40, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We currently don't enforce any particular standard for e-mail addresses
> for developers committing to gentoo.git.  FWICS, the majority of
> developers is using their @gentoo.org e-mail addresses.  However, a few
> developers are using some other addresses.
>
> Using non-@g.o e-mail addresses generally causes problems
> in accounting for commits.  For example, our retirement scripts can't
> detect commits made using non-Gentoo e-mail address.  My dev-timeline
> scripts [1] account for all emails in LDAP (which doesn't cover all
> addresses developers use).  FWIK gkeys accounts for all addresses
> in the OpenPGP key UIDs.  In my opinion, that's a lot of hoops to jump
> through to workaround bad practice.
>
> Therefore, I'd like to start enforcing (at the level of the hook
> verifying signatures) that all commits made to gentoo.git (and other
> repositories requiring dev signatures) are made using @gentoo.org e-mail
> address (for committer field).
>
> Is anyone opposed to that?  Does anyone know of a valid reason to use
> non-@g.o address when committing?
>
> [1]:https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/dev-timeline.html
>

Hi Michał,

just to be clear on the wording, are you talking about the author email
of a git commit (authorship) or the comitter email to the upstream git
repository (committer)?

Thanks,
Manuel