From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:05:52 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733911003181905i25e908f9u472d0467f68d3b00@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> <9e4733911003181641n400704c9r1a0addd6fce6fce0@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733911003181716q7f141d5eqd18218c749ca4624@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733911003181739m2f605dd7g9406aaecc296749f@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733911003181812k1cf08833ke683226377527b56@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Linus Torvalds , Martin Langhoff , Michael Witten , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 19 03:06:14 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 1NsRbB-0007KM-Jl for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:06:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752963Ab0CSCFy convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:05:54 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.27]:24373 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752056Ab0CSCFy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:05:54 -0400 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 8so469218qwh.37 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:05:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SV6kLvfGvPCIDe4udgYt5WXy2F8ASbeBatEhsZvS+oI=; b=DtzOpdfQqQyGyTRNIdhWBBvyYLyFCvH/I0wXwWH9JBCgaMRpxM9A5YzCXmtCIvo7Jl 5Ve703lADVjK89MHeP+dHrAZxcojJ2tEUpCDZAKw62/yYbWqB6OU/4QAVMNGO6QXy+m6 rb6bdu+E71g0GvOxRNxcICllYHidkGF+ySMIU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qEG2m/kutWUGOWgPEgQzPgyuUr+3NsUwYlFNSzOLwbLz7PD4b27CwRT5qGDW/VJgQM HzQGOIICxLTSuR2z3HPedHhOCgR+jVb2dArFaaHHFlRrV24k6GexVkCei43GtCHlJJzC PtHGvOoMLIRXZwlM7qDyIMWG4Lq09KB3NZWvY= Received: by 10.224.69.197 with SMTP id a5mr1026079qaj.185.1268964352308; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:05:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote= : > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Linus Torvalds >> > There is no real _value_ in making a .mailcap for each such buggy = entry is >> > what I'm trying to tell you. Those things are maybe used for stati= stics. >> > On the whole, they are correct. >> >> I was trying to track how many real people were working on the kerne= l. >> =A0If we don't collapse the 13 different versions of you down to one >> person the number numbers are way off. > > If you have a cleaned up .mailmap file which doesn't include unneeded > entries then just submit it for inclusion. =A0If someone else eventua= lly > cares to check and update it then another patch should come forth at > that point. =A0That doesn't have to be any more complicated than that= =2E I sent you a copy, feel free to do whatever you want with it. The academics doing statistics on Linux will love you for submitting it. --=20 Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com