From: Jon Smirl Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:16:31 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: <9e4733911003181716q7f141d5eqd18218c749ca4624@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote: >> > >> >> If anyone is interested I can send them a .mailmap that fixes a lot of >> >> the problems in the kernel tree. It's two years old so it will need >> >> updating. >> > >> > Please just make a patch with it, and post it to lkml and CC Linus and >> > Andrew Morton.  Repost a month later if no one picked it up. >> >> Been there, done that. 1000 message flame war ensued about privacy >> concerns over people's email address in the file. > > Well, you used git itself as the data source to fix up those email > addresses, right?  If so there is simply no privacy concerns as the data > is already there and public.  Just don't venture adding emails that are > not already present in the whole Git history/content at all without > consent. I'll sent you the file and you can commit it. Please take full credit for it. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/28/134 All of the data came out of git tree. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com