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Re: New mailmap file for the kernel

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 28, 2008, 11:23 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:53, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Unless somebody forgets, right?
> 
> Unless there is a pre-commit hook that prevents you from committing
> when you are not in the mailmap.

And how exactly do you plan to make sure everybody has that hook installed?

Also, it would be a major hassle, just for the benefits of statistics (which, funnily enough, not everybody cares about).

> > Also note that in a distributed world, you cannot properly speak of a 
> > "new developer".
> 
> Yet we do it all the time on git.git ;).

But we are not truly distributed. Our community is small enough, and our maintainer good enough, that we do have a single upstream essentially. We do not even have lieutenants through which new developers could come (and therefore would be old developers once they hit master).

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Jon SmirlJul 28, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinJul 28, 2008
  3. Sverre RabbelierJul 28, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinJul 28, 2008
  5. Sverre RabbelierJul 28, 2008
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