Comment 5 for bug 270411

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 11:42:29 Scott Severance wrote:
> If I changed my bazaar username as suggested, then that would involve
> giving my e-mail address away to spammers. It's true that Launchpad
> might not display the email address itself, but any bot viewing the
> bzr log through the web interface would learn my e-mail address. And
> since I have to log in to get write access anyway, Launchpad
> obviously knows my identity without having to parse my e-mail address
> from the log.
>
> Additionally, I didn't find any documentation about this behavior.

If you look at the following branch:

https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~drizzle-developers/drizzle/development

you'll see that Brian Aker has his email shown if and only if there is a
logged in user. The web bots crawl as an anonymous user.

Also once LP is able to link your email to your user account, the email
text is replaced with a link to the launchpad user. If your emails are
not public there, then your email address is not shown anywhere.

Also the issue is to do with linking revisions in a distributed revision
control system with a central user. The only way we can do this is to
work with what we are given. If the revision doesn't contain a unique
way to identify you, we can't link them. Just because you have
revisions in your branch, it doesn't mean you are the author of those
revisions.