Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752835AbYG3Iih (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:38:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759188AbYG3Ii1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:38:27 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:37451 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759182AbYG3Ii0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:38:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4890284E.3050806@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:37:34 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Rene Herman , Jon Smirl , Paul Mundt , James Morris , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Theodore Tso , Simon Arlott , lkml Subject: Re: 463 kernel developers missing! References: <9e4733910807281200m25f7f16bwa6678694bb25a61@mail.gmail.com> <20080728202236.GN9378@mit.edu> <20080728204624.GA11581@redhat.com> <20080728141414.d7e5def2.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20080728234131.GD28055@linux-sh.org> <9e4733910807281714h2918fcbey77c8d1cea902a3fd@mail.gmail.com> <488E644D.7000507@keyaccess.nl> <9e4733910807281750p52cf150lacd0e237732046e7@mail.gmail.com> <488EF377.5080603@keyaccess.nl> <20080730072448.GB1564@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> In-Reply-To: <20080730072448.GB1564@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1256 Lines: 31 Adrian Bunk wrote: > Whether Jon's patch is a good idea one might discuss, There isn't a lot to discuss. From a purely technical standpoint, duplicating SCM metadata into a source file and aiming to be comprehensive and up to date is naive at best. > but as soon as someone puts an email address into a kernel commit > Google will anyway find it: This doesn't justify what Jon did though. Jon created a new database out of formerly disparate datasets, even though we didn't provide him these datasets for this purpose. The fact that the means to create this database are rather trivial and cheap do not mean that we implicitly agreed to what he did or that it wouldn't matter whether we agree to it or not. Jon even suggested that his database is then used to combine with further databases (bugzilla accounts, mailinglist archives). Again, the fact that something like this is possible without great difficulties doesn't make it right. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=== ====- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/