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Bug 355839 - Commits by Alex should be properly attributed
Summary: Commits by Alex should be properly attributed
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Dash
Classification: Technology
Component: Commits Explorer (Retired) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Dash Incoming bugs CLA
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Depends on: 355885
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Reported: 2011-08-25 10:08 EDT by Wayne Beaton CLA
Modified: 2013-06-05 09:02 EDT (History)
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Description Wayne Beaton CLA 2011-08-25 10:08:53 EDT 
Alex (Jubula) recently changed her name and email address. Git commits authored under her previous email address are not be attributed to her and--by extension--her company.
Comment 1 Wayne Beaton CLA 2011-08-25 11:48:57 EDT 
This may be harder than I thought. Any modifications that we do in Dash will require that I include Alex's email address in the code. I believe that this is inappropriate at least, and possibly a violation of the Eclipse Foundation's privacy policy.

I have manually updated the database, but those changes will disappear the next time the scripts extract the information from the Git repo (i.e. on Sunday night).

I believe that we have two options:

1) The Eclipse Foundation infrastructure needs to be updated to track alternative email adresses for committers
2) The project's Git history needs to be re-written.

#1 seems like the right option.

I'm inclined to move this to Community/Portal.
Comment 2 Wayne Beaton CLA 2011-08-25 15:07:22 EDT 
With the fixes on Bug 355885, this issue disappears. Marking as FIXED.
Comment 3 Markus Tiede CLA 2013-06-05 09:02:23 EDT 
Verified.