mercurial notifications

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Kelly,

On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 13:27 -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> Anything in the [ui] username will be put into any changesets created
> by that user (e.g. hg commit or hg tag), verbatim, as a permanent record.
> In the OpenJDK project we insisted on people setting username to the
> OpenJDK name that you registered as, and ONLY that name.

I assumed this was an old leftover from the time that development was
centralized. Now that development is done in the open, with multiple
parties and using a distributed source code management system it seems
somewhat odd to introduce a naming scheme for developers that is
centralized again. Also since there is no ChangeLog file in the various
openjdk repositories it is harder to see who really made a change if
someone isn't using their full name and email address. Personally I have
found it pretty hard to only have these handles without any other
identifying information in the commit messages. People do have names :)
And having contact information for changesets is a good thing imho.

> Does the [email] settings not work? e.g.
> 
> [email]
> from = your at email.address
> 
> Seems like it should.

Maybe we can get the notify extension to use that locally. But that
still doesn't give you the full name and email address of the person
actually having done the commit into the repository that the extension
is monitoring. If the information isn't put into the commit message it
is essentially lost and cannot easily be recovered when moving patch
sets between repos.

Cheers,

Mark