Re: Analysis on who is Jia Tan, and who he could work for, reading xz.git

[Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum () oracle com>]

On 10/04/2024 20:19, Alejandro Colomar wrote:> On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 
12:10:51PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > That's a theory. But many of the commits with author Jia Tan in
> > those time zones have committer Lasse Collin, and show signs of
> > being eg, git-amed patch sets which may have also been rebased. In
> > which case it would make sense that these have Lasse Collin's usual
> > timezone.
>
> Yep, I also had the feeling that some of those might be the result
> of git-am(1) (TBH, I had those feelings today, after the email had
> been sent).  In principle, git-am(1) respects the author date, but if
> some mails (assuming patches taken via mail) were somehow malformed,
> or Lasse had something misconfigured, it might have overwritten the
> author date. Maybe this helps Lasse investigate his emails, and see
> if this makes any sense for him.

Lasse has already hinted at the reasons for why some of these things are
the way they are. Spoiler: normal boring maintainer edits.

But I really think we ought to wait for Lasse's article before
speculating any further about timezones and commit logs: He has stated
on <https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/> that 1) an article is in the works
but 2) cleaning up the repository currently has priority, and 3) he
receives far more email than he can respond to.


Vegard