On 03/26/2018 03:41 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> The list did not author any patches, but it does rewrite the
> 'From:' header of messages sent from any domain with restrictive
> SPF policies that would otherwise prevent the message from reaching
> all list recipients.  If a maintainer is not careful to undo the
> list header rewrite, and the author did not include a manual
> 'From:' line in the body to fix the munged header, then 'git am'
> happily attributes the patch to the list.  Add some mailmap
> entries to correct the few that have escaped our attention; while
> we also work on improving the tooling to catch the problem in
> the future before a merge is even made.

Thanks!

> 
> Also improve the comments occurring in the file, including line
> length improvements.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]>

> ---
> 
> Probably worth inclusion in 2.12-rc1, since it makes statistics
> about the release easier to follow.
> 
>  .mailmap | 18 ++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
> index cf689b9ec99..b02c357e9a1 100644
> --- a/.mailmap
> +++ b/.mailmap
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> -# This mailmap just translates the weird addresses from the original import 
> into git
> -# into proper addresses so that they are counted properly in git shortlog 
> output.
> -#
> +# This mailmap fixes up author names/addresses.
> +
> +# The first section translates weird addresses from the original git import
> +# into proper addresses so that they are counted properly by git shortlog.
>  Andrzej Zaborowski <[email protected]> balrog 
> <balrog@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
>  Anthony Liguori <[email protected]> aliguori 
> <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
>  Anthony Liguori <[email protected]> Anthony Liguori <[email protected]>
> @@ -15,10 +16,19 @@ Paul Burton <[email protected]> 
> <[email protected]>
>  Paul Burton <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
>  Thiemo Seufer <[email protected]> ths 
> <ths@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
>  malc <[email protected]> malc <malc@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
> +
>  # There is also a:
>  #    (no author) <(no author)@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
>  # for the cvs2svn initialization commit e63c3dc74bf.
> -#
> +
> +# Next, translate a few commits where mailman rewrote the From: line due
> +# to strict SPF, although we prefer to avoid adding more entries like that.
> +Ed Swierk <[email protected]> Ed Swierk via Qemu-devel 
> <[email protected]>
> +Ian McKellar <[email protected]> Ian McKellar via Qemu-devel 
> <[email protected]>
> +Julia Suvorova <[email protected]> Julia Suvorova via Qemu-devel 
> <[email protected]>
> +Justin Terry (VM) <[email protected]> Justin Terry (VM) via Qemu-devel 
> <[email protected]>
> +
> +
>  # Also list preferred name forms where people have changed their
>  # git author config
>  Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]>
> 

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