Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2012 07:38:30 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] new mailmap file for the linux kernel git repository |
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On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:25:28PM +0200, Philipp Riemer wrote: > Dear members of the LKML, > I spent the last weeks creating a new .mailmap file for the LK git > repo (see previous mail attached below). > > The new version of this file is available in the git repository at: > git://github.com/ruderphilipp/linux.git mailmap-changes > > Latest commit at the branch: 5b4e7ca5d453bc2701ef79969aecb9ed23abd469 > mailmap changes > The following changes since commit 36be50515fe2aef61533b516fa2576a2c7fe7664 > .mailmap | 2479 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 2441 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) > > Patch file in addition below the attached mail. > > In my work I considered the following aspects: > * Typos in names > * Typos in mails > * Mapping of ambiguous mail adresses (e.g. {aa@bb.cc, aa@home.bb.cc, > aa@laptop.bb.cc,...} becomes {aa@bb.cc}) > * Mapping of names to entries with only email information > * Harmonization of position and style of last name (no more all-caps > names like "First LAST" or those of "Last, First") > * No initials in names if not necessary > * Conversion of email addresses to lower case > > Why did I do this? One reason for that is a missing configuration of > Git -- leading to a combination of the name of user (login) and > computer (e.g. "me@mybox.local"). Of course this is not a real mail > address and most users realize and fix this fact pretty fast. > Nevertheless there is at least one commit with wrong data in the > codebase. Another reason is spelling. When skimming through the vast > list of author names and email addresses one can find many > typographical errors such as ".con" instead of ".com" or missing > letters. Over time also these get fixed -- but the wrong data is > visible. > > I am pretty confident that I coalesced the data of most of the > ambiguous users. But despite having spent so many hours in finding and > matching these entries, this work (that I did primarily for my thesis) > might be helpful for other researchers as well, such as e.g. Wang Chen > as the maintainer of the Linux Kernel Patch Statistic > <http://www.remword.com/kps_result/> or Greg, Jonthan, etc. as the > authors of "Who writes Linux" > <http://go.linuxfoundation.org/who-writes-linux-2012>... > > Hence, please integrate this file into the official Linux Kernel repository.
You forgot a signed-off-by: line which is required for a patch to be accepted :(
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