Re: New mailmap file for the kernel

From: Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 28, 2008, 11:53 UTC
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0807280453rbfc28ffid8314e74cc19b7f7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807281321540.2725@eeepc-johanness>

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 13:23, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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

It needn't be installed with everybody, only at the people that form 'upstream' (in the git case that'd be Junio, in the Linux case that'd be Linus and his lieutenants).

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

Hmmm, I'm not sure if it would be a major hassle once it's set up? Once everybody has their name correctly in the mailmap nobody will have to care?

> 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).

Ah, I did not realize that. Thanks for explaining.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier