From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:26:40 +0100 Message-ID: <4BA397B0.2000908@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> <4BA338C1.7030803@alum.mit.edu> <20100319115445.GA12986@glandium.org> <3f4fd2641003190509j6e4908e4kab87b601d2ce9c00@mail.gmail.com> <3f4fd2641003190757y39050691y3dc0ca08bd5196fb@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael Witten , Mike Hommey , david@lang.hm, git@vger.kernel.org To: Reece Dunn X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 19 16:29:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nse8v-0001DY-31 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:29:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752728Ab0CSP3a (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:29:30 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:34332 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752105Ab0CSP33 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:29:29 -0400 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF37E8B5E; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:29:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:29:27 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=HKwRpwP5KRYgLKOjcJ7WnjRg9l8=; b=gHCfI0JxEwZDy4bRCnHwVJQQ6QgejHhCJrCEP7S+mTD1MpyPfY+3r8TobBR0f2HAeeHZalOsxfdcjMB809srQW0jQygZeEjce/X9TaNNDf07NhrZzvmEZSien1HpvqyT3/3fRE8sOzkLyclLQ32y5/wveCNMy2n1mL000di1WHc= X-Sasl-enc: Pu495Wiimreb5u5mFLGQCaA/ug87NZz76M264PVmve/S 1269012567 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.12]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 634CA20293; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:29:26 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10pre) Gecko/20100319 Lightning/1.0b2pre Shredder/3.0.5pre In-Reply-To: <3f4fd2641003190757y39050691y3dc0ca08bd5196fb@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Reece Dunn venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2010 15:57: [snip] > > So, I'll ask again: what problems are you trying to solve that > cannot be solved by mailmap? > > - Reece [Attention, conspiracy theories below!] The problem seems to be that some people are interested in statistics, so some are interested in consistent author information, but this requires others (the authors) to maintain this information, at least on large projects where this information cannot be kept consistent by a few people. So, some people are looking for a way to enforce this on the others... Of course, one could also rephrase this is as "help authors maintain their authorship information in a consistent way" ;) Michael