[darcs-devel] [issue1343] promote the use of a default from address for more reliable sending

[Simon Michael]

New submission from Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com>:

I think it is pretty common for a simple "darcs send" to fail for new  
contributors to a darcs-using project, for this reason: the project  
uses a subscribers-only mail list, and the developer is sending from a  
machine which sets a from address different from their list address.

This has happened recently on the happstack project, where it seems at  
least the first two or three contributors ran into this problem and  
didn't find the solution (specifying the correct address with --from).  
Instead they started planning a patch-forwarding subscriber (which  
might work but would probably lose attribution, making discussion  
threads less useful, and is an unnecessary additional setup hurdle).

I think this is/will be a pretty common scenario, and it would be nice  
if darcs-using projects and their new contributors didn't have to  
remember to add --from all the time. What to do ?

It might be worth promoting - somehow, somewhere - the use of a  
default from address setting. Ie, encourage users to add "send from  
my at address" to their ~/.darcs/defaults (or platform equivalent) on  
machines they are sending from. And/or, to suggest this to darcs-using  
projects as something that they should mention to their contributors,  
if they use a closed list.

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