commits not associated with github user?

Thomas Stüfe thomas.stuefe at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 14:52:16 UTC 2020


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
> >>>
>
>


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