[Python-Dev] Mercurial? (original) (raw)

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Tue Apr 7 08:15:33 CEST 2009

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 00:05, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

I think the identification in the SSH keys is useless. It contains strings like "loewis at mira" or "ncoghlan at uberwald", or even multiple of them (barry at wooz, barry at resist, ...).

Right, so we'll put up the author map somewhere with the email addresses I gathered and ask for a more thorough review at some point.

It seems that the PEP needs to spell out a policy as to what committer information needs to look like; then we need to verify that the proposed name mapping matches that policy.

Right. It's basically "Name Lastname " -- we can verify that in a hook.

Correct. The objective was to not allow nick names, but have real names as committer names. It appears that this policy does not directly translate into Mercurial.

One of the nicer features of Mercurial/DVCSs, in my experience, is that non-committers get to keep the credit on their patches. That means that it's impossible to enforce a policy more extensive than some basic checks (such as the format above). Unless we keep a list of people who have signed an agreement, which will mean people will have to re-do the username on commits that don't constitute a non-trivial contribution.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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