From: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove non-MAINTAINERS email address references for Lennert Buytenhek.
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:47:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110411194737.1d75e053@schatten.dmk.lab> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110410202716.GK22881@wantstofly.org>
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:27:16 +0200
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 01:20:02PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> > > This gets rid of all (obsolete as well as still valid) email addresses
> > > for Lennert Buytenhek across the tree -- MAINTAINERS should be used for
> > > obtaining a valid email address.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
> >
> > Lennert, this is silly.
> >
> > That email address acts as part of the identification of who you
> > are, and is part of the copyright.
>
> The problem is that half of them are out of date. I at first sent a
> patch to change them all over to buytenh@wantstofly.org, but then got:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129858453409012&w=2
>
> which seemed sensible. :-/
What about the .mailmap file in the kernel source tree? ( man
git-shortlog )
That is honoured at least by git and scripts/get_maintainers.pl ...
You'll want to add lines of the form:
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Lennert Buytenhek <old address>
I guess...
Regards,
Flo
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-10 13:45 [PATCH] Remove non-MAINTAINERS email address references for Lennert Buytenhek Lennert Buytenhek
2011-04-10 20:20 ` David Miller
2011-04-10 20:27 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2011-04-10 20:28 ` David Miller
2011-04-10 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-11 17:47 ` Florian Mickler [this message]
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