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

[Philipp Riemer]

2012/5/16 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>:
> 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

Thank you both for your fast feedback. I really appreciate it.

Since this is my first contribution to the Linux Kernel I am not
pretty sure what I have to do. Is there anywhere a guideline how I get
a "signed-off"? I sent the mail to the addresses I found via
`scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f .mailmap` since I expected those people
to be somehow interested in this file. What other steps can I take?

I don't understand the point regarding the changelog standards -- what
do you mean with that? I changed the .mailmap file and oriented myself
on what was already there... How can I improve the file to fit to the
Linux standards? Some hints?

While I did this mainly for my thesis, I thought that my work might be
useful for others as well... so if you can give me some hints, I will
glad spending some more time and correct the file so that it fits to
the guidelines.

Regards,
Philipp
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