[PATCH] models: Don't munge the 'From' field of patches

[Doug Anderson]

Jeremy,

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org> wrote:
>> The biggest problem is that patchwork saves the "official" name for an
>> email address the first time it sees an email from them.  If that name
>> is wrong (or was missing) patchwork will be confused even if future
>> emails from this person are fixed.  There are similar problems if a
>> user changes his/her name (get married?).
>>
>> It seems better to just have each patch report the actual "From" that
>> was used to send that patch.  We'll still return the submitter in
>> 'X-Patchwork-Submitter' just in case someone wants it.
>
> This change will cause the mbox download to show a different name than the
> web UI, which may also be confusing. How about we store the name in the
> Patch model (if it differs from the Person object) from the From header?

In which part of the web UI?  I played with this and the "Headers"
still shows the proper (un-munged) From address.  Certainly the
"Submitter" at the top still shows the official patchwork idea of what
the person's name is but I'm not convinced that's a bad thing.
Overall patchwork has the concept of what the official name of a
submitter in several places (replies, the "Filters" UI, etc).  Having
the UI show a different name than the "From" mail header is not so
different than seeing a "reply" have a different name than the
"Acked-by" like that the reply contains...

Anyway, I'm happy to give your proposal a shot if you want.  Let me know...

-Doug