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* MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name
@ 2009-08-03 20:32 Joe Perches
  2009-08-03 20:43 ` James Bottomley
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Joe Perches @ 2009-08-03 20:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: James Bottomley; +Cc: Andrew Morton, LKML

His recent patches and sign-offs have not used "E.J."

This reduces the likelihood that get_maintainers.pl will
list his address twice.

Section "MISCELLANEOUS MCA-SUPPORT" already uses this style.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b1114cf..a7288e5 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx*
 
 53C700 AND 53C700-66 SCSI DRIVER
-M:	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
+M:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
 L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/scsi/53c700*
@@ -3033,7 +3033,7 @@ F:	include/*/lapb.h
 F:	net/lapb/
 
 LASI 53c700 driver for PARISC
-M:	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
+M:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
 L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	Documentation/scsi/53c700.txt
@@ -3469,7 +3469,7 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	fs/ncpfs/
 
 NCR DUAL 700 SCSI DRIVER (MICROCHANNEL)
-M:	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
+M:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
 L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.*
@@ -4394,7 +4394,7 @@ F:	drivers/scsi/sg.c
 F:	include/scsi/sg.h
 
 SCSI SUBSYSTEM
-M:	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
+M:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
 L:	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git




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* Re: MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name
  2009-08-03 20:32 MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name Joe Perches
@ 2009-08-03 20:43 ` James Bottomley
  2009-08-03 21:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
  2009-08-03 21:11   ` Joe Perches
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: James Bottomley @ 2009-08-03 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joe Perches; +Cc: Andrew Morton, LKML

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:32 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> His recent patches and sign-offs have not used "E.J."
> 
> This reduces the likelihood that get_maintainers.pl will
> list his address twice.

It is standard:  I like my initials; which, per RFC requires the quotes
because it's a mailing address.

James



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* Re: MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name
  2009-08-03 20:43 ` James Bottomley
@ 2009-08-03 21:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
  2009-08-03 21:22     ` Frans Pop
  2009-08-03 21:11   ` Joe Perches
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: H. Peter Anvin @ 2009-08-03 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: James Bottomley; +Cc: Joe Perches, Andrew Morton, LKML

On 08/03/2009 01:43 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:32 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> His recent patches and sign-offs have not used "E.J."
>>
>> This reduces the likelihood that get_maintainers.pl will
>> list his address twice.
> 
> It is standard:  I like my initials; which, per RFC requires the quotes
> because it's a mailing address.
> 

It's not actually required by RFC 2822.

The relevant productions are:

name-addr       =       [display-name] angle-addr
display-name    =       phrase
phrase          =       1*word / obs-phrase
obs-phrase      =       word *(word / "." / CFWS)

Now, obs- usually indicates an obsolete (deprecated
backwards-compatibility) production, but the text states:

   Note: The "period" (or "full stop") character (".") in obs-phrase is
   not a form that was allowed in earlier versions of this or any other
   standard.  Period (nor any other character from specials) was not
   allowed in phrase because it introduced a parsing difficulty
   distinguishing between phrases and portions of an addr-spec (see
   section 4.4).  It appears here because the period character is
   currently used in many messages in the display-name portion of
   addresses, especially for initials in names, and therefore must be
   interpreted properly.  In the future, period may appear in the
   regular syntax of phrase.

	-hpa

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* Re: MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name
  2009-08-03 20:43 ` James Bottomley
  2009-08-03 21:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
@ 2009-08-03 21:11   ` Joe Perches
  2009-08-03 21:29     ` James Bottomley
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Joe Perches @ 2009-08-03 21:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: James Bottomley; +Cc: Andrew Morton, LKML

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 20:43 +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:32 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > His recent patches and sign-offs have not used "E.J."
> > 
> > This reduces the likelihood that get_maintainers.pl will
> > list his address twice.
> 
> It is standard:  I like my initials; which, per RFC requires the quotes
> because it's a mailing address.

Then change the other entry.

And if you really like your initials, you should probably change
the email address format you're using right now and probably the
mechanism you use to send your patches and acks as well.

Look at the name I'm replying to: (no quotes)
	"James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>"

Right now, if somebody uses get_maintainers.pl on a patch for a
file in drivers/scsi, git will find your signoffs as

(no quotes)
	"James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>"

and the scripts/get_maintainers.pl will use MAINTAINERS entry of

(with quotes)
	"James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>"

You'll be cc'd twice and .mailmap doesn't have enough information
to select your preferred email address.

cheers, Joe


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* Re: MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name
  2009-08-03 21:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
@ 2009-08-03 21:22     ` Frans Pop
  2009-08-03 22:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Frans Pop @ 2009-08-03 21:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: H. Peter Anvin; +Cc: James.Bottomley, joe, linux-kernel

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Now, obs- usually indicates an obsolete (deprecated
> backwards-compatibility) production, but the text states:
> 
> Note: The "period" (or "full stop") character (".") in obs-phrase is
> not a form that was allowed in earlier versions of this or any other
> standard.  Period (nor any other character from specials) was not
> allowed in phrase because it introduced a parsing difficulty
> distinguishing between phrases and portions of an addr-spec (see
> section 4.4).  It appears here because the period character is
> currently used in many messages in the display-name portion of
> addresses, especially for initials in names, and therefore must be
> interpreted properly.  In the future, period may appear in the
> regular syntax of phrase.
 
Interesting.

Does that mean that vger can stop refusing mails because they include an 
address that has an unquoted name with initials?

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* Re: MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name
  2009-08-03 21:11   ` Joe Perches
@ 2009-08-03 21:29     ` James Bottomley
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: James Bottomley @ 2009-08-03 21:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joe Perches; +Cc: Andrew Morton, LKML

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 14:11 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 20:43 +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:32 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > His recent patches and sign-offs have not used "E.J."
> > > 
> > > This reduces the likelihood that get_maintainers.pl will
> > > list his address twice.
> > 
> > It is standard:  I like my initials; which, per RFC requires the quotes
> > because it's a mailing address.
> 
> Then change the other entry.
> 
> And if you really like your initials, you should probably change
> the email address format you're using right now and probably the
> mechanism you use to send your patches and acks as well.
> 
> Look at the name I'm replying to: (no quotes)
> 	"James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>"
> 
> Right now, if somebody uses get_maintainers.pl on a patch for a
> file in drivers/scsi, git will find your signoffs as
> 
> (no quotes)
> 	"James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>"
> 
> and the scripts/get_maintainers.pl will use MAINTAINERS entry of
> 
> (with quotes)
> 	"James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>"
> 
> You'll be cc'd twice and .mailmap doesn't have enough information
> to select your preferred email address.

Assuming people blindly use the scripts, rest assured that my email
system won't collapse under the weight of the extra cc's.

James



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* Re: MAINTAINERS: standardize James Bottomley's name
  2009-08-03 21:22     ` Frans Pop
@ 2009-08-03 22:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: H. Peter Anvin @ 2009-08-03 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Frans Pop; +Cc: James.Bottomley, joe, linux-kernel

On 08/03/2009 02:22 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Now, obs- usually indicates an obsolete (deprecated
>> backwards-compatibility) production, but the text states:
>>
>> Note: The "period" (or "full stop") character (".") in obs-phrase is
>> not a form that was allowed in earlier versions of this or any other
>> standard.  Period (nor any other character from specials) was not
>> allowed in phrase because it introduced a parsing difficulty
>> distinguishing between phrases and portions of an addr-spec (see
>> section 4.4).  It appears here because the period character is
>> currently used in many messages in the display-name portion of
>> addresses, especially for initials in names, and therefore must be
>> interpreted properly.  In the future, period may appear in the
>> regular syntax of phrase.
>  
> Interesting.
> 
> Does that mean that vger can stop refusing mails because they include an 
> address that has an unquoted name with initials?

If it does it's not RFC 2822 compliant.

	-hpa

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