Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:15:56 -0700 |
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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<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?)
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.
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