[export] Committer name not reliable when editing from the backend.

[justvanrossum]

It's been apparent for a while that the user name added to the commit message is not precise: it appears to often add more names than were actually involved in the change. With the incremental export, this becomes even clearen. In this case it even lists a person who hasn't worked on the project for a while:
https://github.com/BlackFoundryCom/gs-cjk-rcjk/commit/e6278c3c55446a41d8325e4b698aba3bdda59a12

[fabiocaccamo]

@justvanrossum thank you for reporting this.

Looking the back-end, it is clear that the wrong name involved in the change is the author of the last change to the Glyphs Composition, even if the last change to the Glyphs Composition has been done months ago (in the commit there is not a modified glyphsComposition.json file.

[justvanrossum]

Any progress on this?

I noticed that when editing directly in the DB web front end, the user name is not recorded, either. Eg. I made this change (in the DB web front end), but I am not listed: https://github.com/BlackFoundryCom/gs-cjk-rcjk/commit/e474a2ef9bb0da648339282c0fec401fe522d055

[fabiocaccamo]

@justvanrossum there is not any progress for now.

This project was created to be used via API, the users that make changes using the backend are not recorded.

[justvanrossum]

But it is possible to edit via the DB front end, so the user should be recorded there as well.

[fabiocaccamo]

It is possible for you, only because you have enough permissions, normal users can't do it.

[justvanrossum]

Still, the git commit should show my name, and not two people who had nothing to do with this change.

[justvanrossum]

Let's separate two issues here:

• Committer name is not reliable, when using the API properly
• Committer name is not available when editing data via the django web UI

The former is a bug that should be fixed, the latter can be filed as a feature request with a low priority.

[justvanrossum]

It also gets confused if more than one client is involved:

[fabiocaccamo]

The number of clients is not relevant because the users database is the same.
There is a distinct on users involved, probably you are using two different users with the same first name / last name.

[fabiocaccamo]

I confirm it, two different users with the same first name / last name but different usernames: