From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>, david@lang.hm, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:06:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100322120649.GA28003@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4087cc51003190509y6ce7ad9dy992254cfe6ac2fb3@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:09:34AM -0600, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:54, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> > While I don't agree with the need for that uuid thing, I'd like to
> > pinpoint that people who care can't necessarily make their e-mail
> > consistant. For example, Linus used to use an @osdl.org address, and
> > he now uses an @linux-foundation.org address. It's still the same Linus,
> > but the (name, email) pair has legitimately changed.
> Indeed.
> This is because the name/email pair (as in the 'name' and 'email'
> config variables) CONFLATES the idea of identity and current email
> account.
You're assuming they aren't conflated - for example, when people do work
both personally and for their employer they often use distinct e-mail
addresses to identify how the work was funded.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-22 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-18 13:23 What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Michael Witten
2010-03-18 13:48 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-18 14:26 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-18 19:02 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-18 19:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-18 19:16 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-18 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-18 19:37 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-18 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-18 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-18 20:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-19 19:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-18 20:31 ` Reece Dunn
2010-03-18 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-18 19:32 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-18 19:47 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-18 20:00 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 19:52 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-03-18 19:40 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-03-18 19:42 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-03-18 22:36 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-03-18 23:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-18 23:26 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-18 23:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-18 23:41 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-18 23:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-19 0:16 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-19 0:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-19 0:39 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-19 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-19 1:12 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-19 1:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-19 2:05 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-18 23:34 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 18:42 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 18:47 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-03-18 18:57 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 19:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-18 20:44 ` tytso
2010-03-18 21:12 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 21:19 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-03-18 21:29 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 21:39 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-03-18 21:46 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 21:55 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-03-18 22:02 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 23:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-18 23:44 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 0:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-19 0:27 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 0:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-18 22:06 ` Reece Dunn
2010-03-18 21:57 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 12:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-19 12:43 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 12:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-19 13:03 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 13:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-19 13:13 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 13:41 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-03-19 13:59 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 14:13 ` Martin Langhoff
2010-03-18 21:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-18 21:44 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-18 23:12 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-18 22:17 ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-03-19 2:47 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2010-03-19 5:17 ` Nazri Ramliy
2010-03-19 8:41 ` Michael Haggerty
2010-03-19 11:39 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 11:45 ` david
2010-03-19 11:54 ` Mike Hommey
2010-03-19 12:09 ` Reece Dunn
2010-03-19 12:16 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 12:18 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 14:57 ` Reece Dunn
2010-03-19 15:26 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-03-19 16:05 ` david
2010-03-19 17:16 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 12:25 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-19 12:40 ` Reece Dunn
2010-03-19 12:09 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-22 12:06 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2010-03-22 14:38 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-24 19:18 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-03-24 19:23 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 12:08 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 14:08 ` Michael Haggerty
2010-03-19 17:02 ` david
2010-03-19 17:06 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-24 18:50 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-19 14:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-03-19 14:33 ` Jon Smirl
2010-03-19 14:52 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-03-19 14:40 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 14:56 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-03-19 15:05 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 15:12 ` Michael Witten
2010-03-19 15:25 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-03-19 15:12 ` Reece Dunn
2010-03-20 0:21 ` Jakub Narebski
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