The name of the sender of a mapguide-commits email notification should be the name of a commiter.

[stevedang]

We used to see the name of the sender/commiter of a mapguide-commits email notification (in stead of the mapguide-commits mail list) from the email viewing pane. We lost this feature after switching to svn.osgeo.org. It is hard to keep track of who did what since one may have a followup later.

[stevedang]

The information we would like to see from a mapguide-commits email notification include:

From: The name of the commiter

Subject: <Revision number>-<Description of the change>

[warmerdam]

Steve,

Is the following not typical of the contents of a commit message on the commits list?

​http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapguide-commits/2007-March/000092.html

This message includes the userid of the commiter in the Author field within the message. While it might arguably be a bit nicer to have this information in from field, I find it hard to imagine it is all that important. However, if you like, I can dig up the script used to generate the messages and you can look into modifying it to do what you want.

[stevedang]

It would be better to have the userid of the commiter/revision number/description of the change visible from the From and Subject fields because they could be quickly found when sorted. If these information are included within the message, then a text search will be required and this is painful.

[crschmidt]

If someone from MapGuide is still interested in this, then they will need to step up. As it is, this would require additional coding: when the commit is made, there is no way to know the email address of the user, and the standard SVN post-commit hooks do not handle updating the email address of the sender this way.

I'm closing this ticket barring someone stepping up with code they'd like to use for this.