Gravatar for gitweb

[Heiko W.Rupp]

Hey,

gravatar.com is a service that allows you to get a little avatar of a user by passing its email address in an api call.
Gitweb supports gravatar, which is disabled by default

You can see an example for the use on fedorahosted:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=rhq/rhq.git;a=summary
and
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=rhq/rhq.git;a=commit;h=56faefbcf1465a45dfd74a8c1a9489f5b43224c6

Enabling gravatar allows to better give the community of contributors a face.

On ovirt.org, gitweb is handled by the gerrit application (and not standalone).
To enable it one needs to put a gitweb config file into 
/home/gerrit2/review_site/etc/ as gitweb.perl  

and then restart gerrit (see http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/Documentation/config-gitweb.html#_internal_managed_gitweb )

When would be a good point to do the latter?

  Heiko

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