Re: Wildcards in mailmap to hide transgender people's deadnames

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Sep 20, 2022, 00:32 UTC
Message-ID: <YykKARz//2mENrRH@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <045e7914-ab16-4d5e-ea9d-8e3c7c758fff@fwdekker.com>

On 2022-09-16 at 16:59:23, Florine W. Dekker wrote:

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> I understand what you mean, and agree that mailmap is just a workaround for
> this issue, having been designed to unify a user's multiple identifiers,
> rather than helping move on from a now-invalid identifier. Being completely
> new to this mailing list, however, I feel that solving the issues you raise
> might be a might much for me to take on.

I agree this is a bigger, separate issue that we should address, but it shouldn't prevent us from doing what improvements we can to the mailmap.

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> Instead, for now, I'm interested to see what we can do with mailmap as a
> workaround. I like the idea of using URL encoding, and would like to hear
> others' opinions on doing so. I think it provides a social signal on its
> obfuscated state, it prevents people from accidentally finding out, and is
> easy and efficient to execute.

I think this would be a fine solution. If folks think the hashed mailmap would be better, I can resend that, or if we like the URL-encoded option, that shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

I do appreciate you taking the time to bring this up since I think this is an important issue to address and it's come up a couple of times. I hope that this time we can come up with some sort of improvement with the mailmap we're willing to take.

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brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA