From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sverre Rabbelier" Subject: Re: New mailmap file for the kernel Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:53:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9e4733910807272145y5b67112er4b90cc36141663c1@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: sverre@rabbelier.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jon Smirl" , "Git Mailing List" To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 28 13:54:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNRIp-0004Fs-CF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:54:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751209AbYG1LxK (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:53:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750920AbYG1LxK (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:53:10 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.174]:5101 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750882AbYG1LxJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:53:09 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so5687457wfd.4 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:53:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=vVJq02Pt8KVMIBiK3oHaJmzrfvwBHo3Z2q4tfy4EMd4=; b=kF4DkWvasXooiiuWEal4sMTlMKVJMNdPENJ1qXDldutOTT55PZR1LgET+DVWgQ+o9X AwBD4LiB/5xPZlrWnYcnh/xypnACGMDltFh9NWhmdKDQQxdj+atDT+d/VNyyHYjNiy7U RNzF69S1QTam13rkYx4qqa9Ye+IoXmBIYnMVs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:references; b=mP2jUvFUNa9Z75MPqUquytqL/PBWRyXDqGSKlGTssnvcA8iEc9f/Nr1wNGz5O0wA5C mPajUokDacSZ/5a4sr8LUy59uyAtvxehvryn4wGPHueKvRfIEw+QHRGzMhWNcjqpFuFL G6jEhepgUbu286CmuCMeK2ELsc3/lGsOfHEZw= Received: by 10.142.156.2 with SMTP id d2mr1553696wfe.321.1217245988896; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.104.10 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:53:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 13:23, Johannes Schindelin 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. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier