Re: [GIT PULL] new mailmap file for the linux kernel gitrepository

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 16 May 2012, Greg KH wrote:

> > In my work I considered the following aspects:
> > * Typos in names
> > * Typos in mails
> > * Mapping of ambiguous mail adresses (e.g. {aa@xxxxx, aa@xxxxxxxxxx,
> > aa@xxxxxxxxxxxx,...} becomes {aa@xxxxx})
> > * 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@xxxxxxxxxxx"). 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 :(

While Greg is at this, the changelogs also really don't really follow the 
kernel changelog standards (line wrapping, etc.).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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