From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:23:57 GMT
Subject: Re: New mailmap file for the kernel
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807281321540.2725@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <bd6139dc0807280411k3a283c5dr4b874342aab167dc@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> 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