Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:23:31 -0400 | From | "Jon Smirl" <> | Subject | Re: 463 kernel developers missing! |
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On 7/28/08, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:01:06PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > I should also point out that external information (Google) was needed > > to identify several hundred names, there was insufficient information > > in the log or kernel source. If we have to reconstruct this mapping > > ten years from now for some random lawsuit, the external information > > may not be there. > > > Jon, > > The reality is ten years from now, many e-mail addresses won't > be accurate anyway. We will have to track people down by hand, if it > ever comes down to that. The signed-off-by needs to be enough so we > can track down someone (very likely only a few set of people); via a > manual method is quite acceptable. I don't think it is really > necessary to try force fit the signed-off-by just so we can collect > better mode.
The kernel already has a mailmap file, but it is not complete. So I should just take this work that makes the mailmap file a lot better and throw it away? The policy is that the log file should be messed up enough so that a computer can't process it and that a human can recover it only with several day's effort? That's a really hard line to define and we'll probably lose the identity of a bunch of contributors. I'll follow up with a patch that deletes the current .mailmap
-- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com
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