Nabble shows the wrong name for messages posted to the Libre Office development mailing list

[mdunphy]

Nabble shows the wrong name for messages posted to the Libre Office development mailing list ([e-mail]).

Nabble URL: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dev-f1639786.html
Mailing list archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2013-April/date.html

Most of the messages with [PATCH] in the subject have the wrong author on the nabble-hosted version.

For example, at Nabble, I'm seeing:

[PATCH] fdo#57950: Chained appends in postgresql driver by Fridrich Strba (via ... 7:33am by Fridrich Strba (via ...

and at the actual mailing list archives:

[PATCH] fdo#57950: Chained appends in postgresql driver   Marcos Souza (via Code Review)

[Pedro]

Could you give more examples? These two users has the same email address, so it is possible that he had changed his name at Nabble's interface.

[mdunphy]

Sure, it seems to be most of the messages with [PATCH] in the title

The nabble page is sorted newest-oldest and the archives page sorted oldest-newest. So, from the top of nabble,

[PATCH libreoffice-4-0] Resolves: fdo#61241 background style dialog too small by Michael Stahl (via C...
[PATCH] use filelist install method for udkapi and offapi by Michael Stahl (via C...
[PATCH] fix fdo#40496: don't reset RES_FRAMEDIR attribute. by Michael Stahl (via C.
...

and from the bottom of the archives,

...
[PUSHED] fix fdo#40496: don't reset RES_FRAMEDIR attribute.   Lior Kaplan (via Code Review)
[PATCH] use filelist install method for udkapi and offapi   David Tardon (via Code Review)
[PATCH libreoffice-4-0] Resolves: fdo#61241 background style dialog too small   Caolán McNamara (via_Code_Review)

It looks like the nabble parser is getting stuck on a name as it's going through the list. The name Michael Stahl does occur earlier, but it's about 10 posts earlier.   If we wait long enough (few hours so there more posts show up), a different name will be the one that's getting stuck on the nabble page.

[Pedro]

Hi, we finally figured out what causes this the problem. We will work to fix it.

[Pedro]

All those emails come from a single address, but the 'From' name has the name of the user who committed the code.
So Nabble gets completely confused with all those different names. We have a piece of code that automatically sets the name of the user based on the 'From' header of the email. So this code keeps changing the name of that user account.