commits not associated with github user?

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi,

this continues to be a problem. None of the suggested workarounds (adding
the fake openjdk mail address to the account) worked.

Any more suggestions?

Thanks, Thomas


On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 3:52 PM Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the clarification, Magnus.
>
> I added my fake openjdk mail address to my Github account yesterday,
> without any effects yet, but it may just take some time. I'll be patient :)
>
> Cheers, Thomas
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 2:58 PM Magnus Ihse Bursie <
> magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> It's a bit weird (since the openjdk.org domain has still not gotten live
>> for MX), but this is indeed the correct way to get your github account
>> associated with your commits. You'll just have to live with the address
>> being "unverified" in github for the moment, and be thankful that github
>> still trusts it enough to use it for linking commits with accounts. :)
>>
>> I assure you we do not want this limbo to continue any longer than
>> necessary.
>>
>> /Magnus
>>
>>
>> On 2020-11-01 08:10, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>> > Okay, I tried this and as expected the mail address remains unverified
>> in
>> > Github since it is not a real mail address (or is it? At least I have no
>> > idea how to access this mail box, if it exists). Did this still work for
>> > you with the mail address left unverified?
>> >
>> > Thanks, Thomas
>> >
>> > On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 10:49 AM Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Anirvan,
>> >>
>> >> interesting idea, thank you!
>> >>
>> >> But the openjdk mail addresses are not valid. I hesitate to add an
>> invalid
>> >> mail address to my Github profile. I'd rather that the correct mail
>> >> addresses be used by the Skara tools, those we are registered in the
>> census
>> >> with and which are used by the Github account. Especially since these
>> fake
>> >> addresses also add confusion to mailing list traffic.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks, Thomas
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 9:16 AM Anirvan Sarkar <
>> powers.anirvan at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi Thomas,
>> >>>
>> >>> I had also observed the same behaviour.
>> >>> Then I noticed that OpenJDK commits are committed with OpenJDK email
>> >>> address [1].
>> >>> So I added my OpenJDK email address to GitHub email settings [2] and
>> >>> after some days when I checked again, I found my commit was linked to
>> my
>> >>> GitHub user [3].
>> >>>
>> >>> Can you add your OpenJDK email address in your GitHub settings and
>> see if
>> >>> it works for you?
>> >>> If it works then we can ask the Skara team to add this step in the
>> Wiki.
>> >>>
>> >>> [1]
>> >>>
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/7a937e0ddedbb06e18196b6c3f4170e98fc2936a.patch
>> >>> [2] https://github.com/settings/emails
>> >>> [3]
>> >>>
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/7a937e0ddedbb06e18196b6c3f4170e98fc2936a
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 19:40, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hi,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> a small question: I associated my OpenJDK user with my GitHub user as
>> >>>> explained in [1]. But I still do not see my github user associated
>> with
>> >>>> commits in the OpenJDK, e.g. for
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/7ba6a6bf003b810e9f48cb755abe39b1376ad3fe#diff-40f3361acaecc2d05896655fa532ab5b6cba2885cbcc5796cac4e81d010763ba
>> >>>>
>> >>>> It says my name, fully written, not clickable. Seems to be the case
>> for
>> >>>> many developers, but not all of them. For some, the commit is
>> actually
>> >>>> linked to the Github user.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Did I miss some step somewhere when setting up my user?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks!
>> >>>> Thomas
>> >>>>
>> >>>> [1]
>> >>>>
>> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/SKARA/Skara#Skara-GettingStarted
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Anirvan
>> >>>
>>
>>