[vlc-devel] Deprecating the VLM

Konstantin Pavlov thresh at videolan.org
Wed Sep 23 11:14:51 CEST 2020


Hello Pierre,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 07:32:13PM +0200, Pierre Ynard via vlc-devel wrote:
> > You are 100% right, however "Munge From" breaks git am badly since it
> > rewrites the actual Author name to "John Doe via vlc-devel".. So there
> > is no other choice than Wrap message if we want DMARC-enabled mails to
> > be actually useful.
> >
> > It's sad though some MUAs do not support that nicely, but I don't know
> > how to make this experience better for everyone.
> 
> Can you set that filter to "Munge From" only on some emails, or is it a
> hard global setting?

Sadly it's a global (per-list) setting.  No way to activate it for some
mails.

> I don't mind if my patches are posted by the mailing list with the wrong
> author field, I will take responsibility for correctly merging them
> myself.

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