Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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- david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm>
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- Mar 19, 2010, 16:05 UTC
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Michael J Gruber wrote:
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> Reece Dunn venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2010 15:57: > > [snip] >> >> So, I'll ask again: what problems are you trying to solve that >> cannot be solved by mailmap? >> >> - Reece > > [Attention, conspiracy theories below!] > > The problem seems to be that some people are interested in statistics, > so some are interested in consistent author information, but this > requires others (the authors) to maintain this information, at least on > large projects where this information cannot be kept consistent by a few > people. So, some people are looking for a way to enforce this on the > others... Of course, one could also rephrase this is as "help authors > maintain their authorship information in a consistent way" ;)
but a UUID doesn't help you.
if you can force people to have a consistant UUID, you can force them to have a consistant e-mail address (and submit mapping updates if it changes)
if you can't force people to maintain a consistant e-mail, why do you think they would maintain a consistant UUID?
David Lang