Re: New mailmap file for the kernel

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 28, 2008, 10:53 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807281251000.2725@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807272145y5b67112er4b90cc36141663c1@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:

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> I made a new mailmap file for the kernel. I'll put it out on LKML 
> tomorrow.
> 
> It takes a new philosophy, there is an entry for every email address
> in the kernel git tree even if the name associated with it is correct.

Note that this makes maintaining the list much more tedious. Of course, if you step up to maintain it, that is not an issue for others.

> As a result of this clean up the number of unique contributors to the 
> kernel fell from 4,284 to 3,821. A total of 463 errors or about 12% of 
> all name/email pairs. We clearly need to do some validation.

FWIW I think it is the responsibility of every contributor to quickly check if their credentials are correct, and provide a patch if they are not.

> Now that the file has every valid name/email in it is should be possible 
> to validate the name/email in all new commits. When a new developer 
> comes along we'll know it since they won't be in the file.

Unless somebody forgets, right?

Also note that in a distributed world, you cannot properly speak of a "new developer".

> Maybe Linus will send them a welcome message.

Kidding?

Ciao, Dscho