Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:53:48 -0700 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: Who wrote 2.6.28 |
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:49:27 -0500 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> One of the things which get confusing is that people's employers > change over time, so if you are mapping engineers to company, it's not > enough to use just an e-mail address and map it to a company name; > ideally you need to take an e-mail address and/or name and date range, > and then map that to a compay name. For example Alan Cox was > previously at Red Hat, but he will be changing employers to Intel as > of some date in January, 2009, but he will be keeping his e-mail > address.
FWIW, the gitdm code handles that just fine. Of course, it does require keeping the database current, which is always a challenge.
jon
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