Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

[Jon Smirl]

On 7/28/08, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:01:06PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>  > I should also point out that external information (Google) was needed
>  > to identify several hundred names, there was insufficient information
>  > in the log or kernel source. If we have to reconstruct this mapping
>  > ten years from now for some random lawsuit, the external information
>  > may not be there.
>
>
> Jon,
>
>         The reality is ten years from now, many e-mail addresses won't
>  be accurate anyway.  We will have to track people down by hand, if it
>  ever comes down to that.  The signed-off-by needs to be enough so we
>  can track down someone (very likely only a few set of people); via a
>  manual method is quite acceptable.  I don't think it is really
>  necessary to try force fit the signed-off-by just so we can collect
>  better mode.

The kernel already has a mailmap file, but it is not complete. So I
should just take this work that makes the mailmap file a lot better
and throw it away? The policy is that the log file should be messed up
enough so that a computer can't process it and that a human can
recover it only with several day's effort? That's a really hard line
to define and we'll probably lose the identity of a bunch of
contributors. I'll follow up with a patch that deletes the current
.mailmap

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
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