This will not affect most developers. Only casual contributers who were manually editing their ChangeLog entries to include their email address and real names (and often forgetting to do so, thus resulting in a r-). -eric On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Eric Seidel<eric@webkit.org> wrote:

Be aware of this change: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/45455

prepare-ChangeLog will now fail if it can't determine your email address or full name.

This will hopefully prevent your patches from being r-'d for lack of email address or full name in the future. :)

-eric