Re: [gentoo-project] Reconsidering github "noreply" emails in author/signed-off-by

[Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org>]

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On 19.10.2023 18.33, Sam James wrote:
> GitHub supports email addresses like <ID+username>@users.noreply.github.com for both git authorship
> and Signed-off-by.
> 
> At the moment, we don't have a formal policy on this.
> 
> Prima facie, the email is unsuitable for use given you can't use it
> to contact the person using it.
> 
> I'm told github, at least at the moment, _does_ forward emails sent to
> the addresses, despite the "noreply" component, but I'm not sure they
> guarantee this at all. This is entirely word-of-mouth which isn't
> great.
> 
> I also think the email appears antisocial and defeats the purpose of a
> GLEP 76 sign-off given it can't reliably be used to contact somebody.
> 
> LLVM is also discussing this at
> https://discourse.llvm.org/t/hidden-emails-on-github-should-we-do-something-about-it/74223.
> 
> Should we ban the use of noreply emails in git authorship,
> Signed-off-by, and in mask files etc?
> 
> thanks,
> sam
> 

Hey,

Now instead of this you have an example of people initializing these
"1-off" mail addresses. I believe Github's noreply is a better way to
reach or identify someone than the 10minutemail alternative.

-- juippis

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