Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

[Jon Smirl]

On 7/28/08, Simon Arlott <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 28/07/08 18:05, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > On 7/28/08, Simon Arlott <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On 28/07/08 15:45, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > >
> > > > Here's a new .mailmap file for the kernel that cleans up the horrible
> > > > mess of names and email addresses in the log.  To use it put it at the
> > > > root of your kernel tree and type 'git shortlog'. Before the clean up
> > > > there were 4,284 developers, after 3,821. There are 5,051 unique
> > > > emails.
> > > >
> > > > The mailmap file contains all email addresses that have been used to
> > > > submit patches to the kernel. Don't freak out about your email address
> > > > being in the file, if it is in the file it is already in Google since
> > > > the kernel log is already in Google.
> > > >
> > >
> > >  Just because anyone can grep the kernel log for email addresses [to
> send
> > > spam to], doesn't mean that you need to do it for them.
> > >
> >
> > You need to be in the file since you have submitted patches using three
> aliases.
> >
>
>  No, I've submitted patches using three email addresses (well, two - one is
> a typo).

That's the whole point of this list. When you submit patches in the
future we can check your name/email against the list and flag it if it
isn't there. That will alert you that you've made a typo.

A later version of this list could separate the valid current
names/addresses from the entries that are fixing typos or that have
old emails. That would improve the validation. But I don't have an
automated way to tell me which alias is the current one. Access to the
current LKML subscriber list would supply the needed info as to which
one to pick.

> >
> > >  Please read git-shortlog(1) and then remove me from this file because
> it
> > > won't change anything.
> > >
> >
>
>  Try running "git shortlog" too, you'll see I only appear once using the
> existing 99-line .mailmap file.
>
>  --
>  Simon Arlott
>


-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/