Messages in this thread | | | From | Philipp Riemer <> | Date | Thu, 3 May 2012 11:16:59 +0200 | Subject | proposal of a new mailmap file for the linux kernel git repository |
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Dear members of the LKML, one of the advantages of distributed version systems such as the here used Git is also the weakness of those: everyone has its own copy of the repository and there is no authority controlling it (in general). As a result every developer can use whatever name and email address he or she wants to use. 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.
The .mailmap file of the Linux Kernel consists of around 100 entries at the moment. Due to my work for my thesis I am currently skim through all names and email addresses and add ambiguous ones to the mailmap file as well. This lead to a size of around 2000 lines.
Because this is my first contribution to the Linux Kernel and since the size of the file is huge compared to most other patches, I want to ask if I still should post the (patch) file here or if the link to my GitHub clone (<https://github.com/ruderphilipp/linux>, branch "mailmap-changes") is enough? Or should I send the file directly to one maintainer? For the latter, who would be the best person in this case? Paul Mundt because he pushed the last changes of this file to the official repository? Wang Chen as the maintainer of the Linux Kernel Patch Statistic? Or someone else?
It is not the final version, yet, since I still have around 2.5% (500 of originally around 20000 entries) to analyze. But I would say that this file is as good as done.
With regards, Philipp Riemer
PS: I would appreciate if everyone searches for his or her own name in the list under <https://github.com/ruderphilipp/linux/blob/mailmap-changes/.mailmap> and corrects it if necessary.
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