Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757551Ab2EPQqn (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 12:46:43 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:44681 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756249Ab2EPQql (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 12:46:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1337184643.4818.8.camel@joe2Laptop> References: <1337184643.4818.8.camel@joe2Laptop> From: Philipp Riemer Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 18:46:20 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] new mailmap file for the linux kernel git repository To: Joe Perches Cc: Paul Mundt , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_B=FCsch?= , Kuninori Morimoto , Jiri Kosina , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_Kleine=2DK=F6nig?= , LKML , Wang Chen , Greg KH , Jonathan Corbet Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1941 Lines: 46 2012/5/16 Joe Perches : > On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 16:25 +0200, Philipp Riemer wrote: >> This leads to the fact that many people have >> typos in there names or use ".local" or ".(none)" email addresses. >> Hence, Git supports .mailmap files to overcome this and correct known >> mistakes. > [] >> But I would say that >> this file is as good as done. > > Why add these entries at all again? Due to the research for my thesis, I tried to find out how many developers are contributing to the Linux Kernel. First I thought that this would be easy since there was already a mailmap file that contained information about ambiguous email addresses. But I discovered pretty fast that there were more names with typos etc. so that I started to add those to the file as well. > For instance, my name is listed once in your patch. > and I don't see a reason it should be entered at all. Your name appears in the list because I did a search and you are listed with three "different" entries: * Joe Perches * joe@perches.com * Joe Perches Actually, I just realized that I even forgot to add the entry for the ".ccom" and will add it before re-submitting. > Many developers share a common name and some of > these entries may be not be correct. I will re-check every entry again (based on the type of contribution/ part of interest/ company) before re-submitting. > Some developers purposefully use multiple email > addresses to allow direct responses to be categorized > on receipt. I must agree that I did not consider this point. I will have a look and might change some entries accordingly. Thank you very much for your feedback. -- 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/