auto guess committer email.. good idea?

[Martin Pool]

On 28 Feb 2006, Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/2/28, James Blackwell <jblack at merconline.com>:

> > I think that there's four, ordered by the ways I think are easiest for
> > users.
> >
> >  1. Leave it alone.
> >  2. Politely remind user that email address isn't open.
> >  3. Ask for the email address
> >  4. Bomb out if email address isn't set
> 
> As a user, I'd order it 2, 4, 3, 1.

There are a few levels of "set" or not - if $MAIL is set, it's probably
a reasonable assumption and doesn't require a warning.  If /etc/mailname
is present (giving the machine's mail domain) is that good enough?
Probably so.  (Separately - is there any good equivalent accessible from
Python on Windows?)

If none of these and we are just going to use user at hostname with the raw
hostname then a warning shown once per process would be OK with me.

-- 
Martin
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