Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755236Ab1FMXQA (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:16:00 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:2886 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754002Ab1FMXP7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:15:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel From: Joe Perches To: Ryan Mallon Cc: Alan Cox , Paul Mundt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andre Renaud , H Hartley Sweeten , Russell King , Nicolas Ferre , Andrew Victor , David Woodhouse , Anton Vorontsov , Liam Girdwood , Mark Brown , trivial@kernel.org, jj@chaosbits.net, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <4DF697B4.6080000@gmail.com> References: <1307661170-9325-1-git-send-email-rmallon@gmail.com> <20110610025532.GE26006@linux-sh.org> <20110610095641.664fad35@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4DF697B4.6080000@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:15:56 -0700 Message-ID: <1308006956.26699.52.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1630 Lines: 38 On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 09:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: > On 10/06/11 18:56, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:55:49 +0900 > > Paul Mundt wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: > >>> I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly. > >> Is this sort of churn really necessary? > > Yes - stale email addresses cause all sorts of problems, particularly if > > in the future the address is re-used in the company. It also causes > > confusion over who owns and maintains stuff because it's never obvious > > whether the resolution of an unknown address is > > A. 'user has moved on, follow the user' > > B. 'user has moved on, company probably has someone else assigned > > to it' > Okay, so there seem to be a number of different opinions on this. I > would really like some solution for this so it can go into 3.0. The > options I see are: > a) My original patch > b) My original patch, but delete email address in .[ch] files rather > than change it > c) Entry in .mailmap (will this work for 3.0?) It will if Andrew Morton/Linus picks up my patch. > d) Add MAINTAINERS entries for each of the files which have my email > address in them > e) Some combination of the above > Is there a preferred option? My preferred combination is b and c. If you're European, maybe a and c is best. -- 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/