It seems that get_maintainer.pl will make recommendations based on
commit history to a file, but over time, people change emails that
they commit from, then get_maintainer.pl recommends the possibly now
invalid email address.
I feel like we should have a look up table / file like MAINTAINERS
that tracks previous and new email addresses, which get_maintainer.pl
would parse, that way we have a record of movement between committer
email addresses allowing get_maintainer.pl to make more accurate
recommendations. Thoughts?
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 11:36:23AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> It seems that get_maintainer.pl will make recommendations based on
> commit history to a file, but over time, people change emails that
> they commit from, then get_maintainer.pl recommends the possibly now
> invalid email address.
>
> I feel like we should have a look up table / file like MAINTAINERS
> that tracks previous and new email addresses, which get_maintainer.pl
> would parse, that way we have a record of movement between committer
> email addresses allowing get_maintainer.pl to make more accurate
> recommendations. Thoughts?
.mailmap
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:53 AM Adam Borowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 11:36:23AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > It seems that get_maintainer.pl will make recommendations based on
> > commit history to a file, but over time, people change emails that
> > they commit from, then get_maintainer.pl recommends the possibly now
> > invalid email address.
> >
> > I feel like we should have a look up table / file like MAINTAINERS
> > that tracks previous and new email addresses, which get_maintainer.pl
> > would parse, that way we have a record of movement between committer
> > email addresses allowing get_maintainer.pl to make more accurate
> > recommendations. Thoughts?
>
> .mailmap
Neat, that's a start. It has a top level comment about being used by
git-shortlog, looks like get_maintainer.pl parses it, and it's a
default on option. Cool. Ok, looks like I just need to add someone
to the .mailmap file. Thanks!
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers