Allow authors to use different email addresses in different PEPs #4797
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The context here is that Yury Selivanov and I have a forthcoming PEP and would prefer to use our current employer's email addresses for it, but don't want to change our email addresses on earlier PEPs we've written. (Obviously this affects more PEPs for Yury than for me :P) There's no serious technical impediment to supporting this, so I have. I've tested this locally.
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I'm not sure we should do this; the name-email pair serves as a unique identifier for authors. We've already had authors with the same surname, and having some way of mapping authors to PEPs in a unique fashion is a useful property.
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The context here is that Yury Selivanov and I have a forthcoming PEP
and would prefer to use our current employer's email addresses for it,
but don't want to change our email addresses on earlier PEPs we've
written. (Obviously this affects more PEPs for Yury than for me :P)
There's no serious technical impediment to supporting this, so I have.
I've tested this locally.
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