From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A111F7DE79 for ; Fri, 4 May 2018 11:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750880AbeEDLeO (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2018 07:34:14 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:54238 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750820AbeEDLeN (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2018 07:34:13 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To: From:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=M/qldvMILTN9Ti0RGBoiQQ39atKs5WvmnOqFzAdbvrw=; b=I65uelzOdKf5Gs+eMZdFWwJJj qpScUwNkGQ5BVgRz3u5rGxp7DxpQHSJ7LLjlKnbqiIDIwbEZd+ItAVQOzX2qo4nlXhYToDrcj/O8n VrzU7K73RJHclyLm5aA/x8jm459in573Tpi0X4nYp+YqlpPig62TUMXNsxZrY9yS9Lnf9yzpVCeuF Vw/7vBGBja18H+VcUhVTchEzFRJR+r2eojzmHkEf8f1319iW/C9yaJZsjUFw3fgnnCuDf94/hwXjz IWAf09XITPZM+Ble8cfqC+92y5eahyPmojMMyWiz0V92UmHBgkcnNz03BzxTFXMLsIWIyTTQHzD7G SoPkicS8Q==; Received: from 177.17.129.114.dynamic.adsl.gvt.net.br ([177.17.129.114] helo=vento.lan) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1fEYyU-00014P-5y; Fri, 04 May 2018 11:34:06 +0000 Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 08:33:55 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab To: Jani Nikula Cc: Linux Media Mailing List , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Jonathan Corbet , Harry Wei , Hans Verkuil , Brian Warner , "David S. Miller" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Linus Walleij , Randy Dunlap , Sakari Ailus , "Gustavo A. R. Silva" , Benoit Parrot , Al Viro , Arvind Yadav , Kees Cook , Bhumika Goyal , Sean Young , Brad Love , Devin Heitmueller , Philippe Ombredanne , Markus Elfring , Alexey Klimov , Colin Ian King , Julia Lawall , Sylwester Nawrocki , Tim Harvey , Tomasz Figa , Guennadi Liakhovetski , Yong Zhi , Jan Kara , Dan Williams , Masahiro Yamada , Kamil Rytarowski , Matthew Wilcox , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@zh-kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS & files: Canonize the e-mails I use at files Message-ID: <20180504083355.0c891ab3@vento.lan> In-Reply-To: <87in837km8.fsf@intel.com> References: <85bfc919e068ea7bb1e9b533ac6f60798844a5c0.1525428104.git.mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> <87in837km8.fsf@intel.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Em Fri, 04 May 2018 13:58:39 +0300 Jani Nikula escreveu: > On Fri, 04 May 2018, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > From now on, I'll start using my @kernel.org as my development e-mail. > > > > As such, let's remove the entries that point to the old > > mchehab@s-opensource.com at MAINTAINERS file. > > > > For the files written with a copyright with mchehab@s-opensource, > > let's keep Samsung on their names, using mchehab+samsung@kernel.org, > > in order to keep pointing to my employer, with sponsors the work. > > > > For the files written before I join Samsung (on July, 4 2013), > > let's just use mchehab@kernel.org. > > > > For bug reports, we can simply point to just kernel.org, as > > this will reach my mchehab+samsung inbox anyway. > > I suppose this begs the question, why do we insist on adding our email > addresses all over the place? On a quick grep, there are at least 40k+ > email addresses in the sources. Do we expect them all to be up-to-date > too? That's a good question. The usual use case is that the e-mail allows people to contact developers if needed. Such contact could simply due to something like handling SPDX or other license-related issues or for troubleshooting. There's also another reason (with IMHO, is more relevant): just the name may not be enough to uniquely identify the author of some code. While that might happen on occidental Countries, this is a way more relevant for Asian Countries. For example, there are very few surnames on some Countries there[1], and common names are usually... common. So, it is not hard to find several people with exactly the same name working at the same company. I've seen e-mails from those people that are things like john.doe51@some.company, john.doe69@some.company, ... [1] For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_surnames. The e-mail is a way to uniquely identify a person. If we remove it, then we may need to add another thing instead (like parents names, security number or whatever), with would be weird, IMO. As we all use e-mails to uniquely identify contributors submissions, IMHO, the best is to keep using e-mails. The side effect is that we should keep those emails updated. - In the specific case of this patch, as I'm now just using @kernel.org everywhere within the Kernel tree, I don't expect needing to change it in long term. Thanks, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html