From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6707D2F0 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2019 16:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726581AbfHIQ2R (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2019 12:28:17 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:48024 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726556AbfHIQ2R (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2019 12:28:17 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 299C3737; Fri, 9 Aug 2019 16:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 10:28:16 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Chao Yu Cc: Chao Yu , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jaegeuk@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: add entry for Jaegeuk Kim Message-ID: <20190809102816.52b3b310@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20190802012135.31419-1-yuchao0@huawei.com> <20190802072626.405246e3@lwn.net> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 22:37:41 +0800 Chao Yu wrote: > > IMO, when we use git-blame to find out who is response for specified code, w/o > > mailmap we may just found old obsolete email address in the related commit; even > > we can search full name for his/her new email address, how can we make sure they > > are the same person... so anyway, it can help to find last valid/canonical email > > address of someone. > > Any thoughts? I'm not fully convinced that we want to maintain a database of every developer's email history. But I did merge this patch a few days ago. Thanks, jon