Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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- Mar 19, 2010, 02:05 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Linus Torvalds >> > There is no real _value_ in making a .mailcap for each such buggy entry is >> > what I'm trying to tell you. Those things are maybe used for statistics. >> > On the whole, they are correct. >> >> I was trying to track how many real people were working on the kernel. >> If we don't collapse the 13 different versions of you down to one >> person the number numbers are way off. > > If you have a cleaned up .mailmap file which doesn't include unneeded > entries then just submit it for inclusion. If someone else eventually > cares to check and update it then another patch should come forth at > that point. That doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.
I sent you a copy, feel free to do whatever you want with it. The academics doing statistics on Linux will love you for submitting it.
-- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com