[FFmpeg-devel] Patchwork attribution

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 8:23 PM Lou Logan <lou at lrcd.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:01:27 -0400
> "Lou Logan" <lou at lrcd.com> wrote:
> >
> > But we can certainly give it a try if you like. I'm not sure how patchwork will handle it.
>
> (Didn't realize my webmail client wasn't actually wrapping my text
> although it was doing it in the window at the expected lengths.)
>
> I just changed it from "munge" to "wrap" (only on ffmpeg-devel for
> now). If it doesn't work out then I'll just go back to the original
> setting of "accept" until if/when we find a better solution. We will
> lose some subscribers but the current patch author mangling is not
> worth the trouble in my opinion.

The first mail like that arrived, and handling of it  of course
depends on the mail client in question. But at least Patchwork doesn't
seem to like it much, it  quite simply still attributes it to the
"shared" mail.
Not sure if there  is some way to get Patchwork to improve in that regard.