Re: New mailmap file for the kernel

["Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 13:23, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> And how exactly do you plan to make sure everybody has that hook
> installed?

It needn't be installed with everybody, only at the people that form
'upstream' (in the git case that'd be Junio, in the Linux case that'd
be Linus and his lieutenants).

> Also, it would be a major hassle, just for the benefits of statistics
> (which, funnily enough, not everybody cares about).

Hmmm, I'm not sure if it would be a major hassle once it's set up?
Once everybody has their name correctly in the mailmap nobody will
have to care?

> But we are not truly distributed.  Our community is small enough, and our
> maintainer good enough, that we do have a single upstream essentially.  We
> do not even have lieutenants through which new developers could come (and
> therefore would be old developers once they hit master).

Ah, I did not realize that. Thanks for explaining.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier