[PATCH 1/2] dim: Workaround Outlook + Patchwork mess.

[Lucas De Marchi]

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 4:10 AM, Arkadiusz Hiler
<arkadiusz.hiler at intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 02:37:52PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 May 2018, Arkadiusz Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler at intel.com> wrote:
>> > Patchwork does not store the vanilla email contents. This means that
>> > there are quite a few changes to be made to the database schema and data
>> > retrieval paths.
>> >
>> > If we store and spit out the vanilla emails then you say goodbye to auto
>> > r-b and ack in the mboxes - I am not sure that's the change most people
>> > here would like to see.
>> >
>> > Storing original contents of the From header is much easier and maintain
>> > most of the current behavior.
>> >
>> > This is just a bit of over thinking :-)
>> >
>> > Mostly it was dancing around the initial design shortcomings without
>> > having to do a full blown rework with downtime and data migration.
>> >
>> > But hey, if the maintainers can agree that they just want the vanilla
>> > mbox, I can deliver.
>>
>> I want the author of the patch be set to the vanilla From: mail header,
>> optionally overridden with the vanilla From: tag in the first lines of
>> patch email commit message as put there by git.
>>
>> BR,
>> Jani.
>
> https://github.com/ivyl/patchwork/commit/b9a3691af88f
>
> I'll deploy that over the weekend.

makes total sense! Thanks!



Lucas De Marchi