Format for JDK 6/7 changeset comments?

[David Herron]

Iris Clark wrote:
> Hi, Mark.
>
>   
>>                                                           The goal here
>> isn't to give credit to every last person who helped with the change, but
>> rather to acknowledge non-committers who contribute whole changes.  I'd
>> rather see just a simple acknowledgment listing the contributor's e-mail
>> address, e.g.,
>>
>>     Contributed-by: Random Hacker <hack at gnu.org>
>>
>> We can change "Review:" to "Reviewed-by:" as well, to stress the analogy
>> with RFC-822 and the fact that changeset comments aren't intended to be
>> arbitrary text.
>>     
>
> How can we be sure that Random Hacker doesn't have a problem with us
> releasing his e-mail address?  
>
> If somebody is commiting a change, then they've already agreed to the
> SCA.  I'm not sure if signing the SCA means that we can use their
> e-mail address, but I think we can assume that by choosing to
> contribute to an open project, certain information is public.  On the
> other hand, I don't know if the same can be said for proxy submissions
> although I believe it can be since we won't accept proxy submissions
> without the original author signing the SCA.  Do we have absolute
> clarity on the policy here?
>
> iris
>   
Right, I just reread the SCA and it only talks about joint ownership 
assignment, and not any statement about names and email addresses being 
published.

That would fall under privacy considerations.  e.g. Sun's corporate 
Privacy Policy.

- David Herron

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