Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:05:24 +1000 | From | Ryan Mallon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel |
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On 10/06/11 18:56, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:55:49 +0900 > Paul Mundt<lethal@linux-sh.org> 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?) 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? Who (Linus?) do I need to Cc to get this included for 3.0?
Thanks, ~Ryan
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