Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

[Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>]

On 28/07/08 18:22, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 7/28/08, Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> wrote:
>> On 28/07/08 18:05, Jon Smirl wrote:
>> > On 7/28/08, Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> wrote:
>> > >  Just because anyone can grep the kernel log for email addresses [to
>> send
>> > > spam to], doesn't mean that you need to do it for them.
>> > >
>> >
>> > You need to be in the file since you have submitted patches using three
>> aliases.
>> >
>>
>>  No, I've submitted patches using three email addresses (well, two - one is
>> a typo).
> 
> That's the whole point of this list. When you submit patches in the
> future we can check your name/email against the list and flag it if it
> isn't there. That will alert you that you've made a typo.

I don't make typos in my name or email address.

> A later version of this list could separate the valid current
> names/addresses from the entries that are fixing typos or that have
> old emails. That would improve the validation. But I don't have an
> automated way to tell me which alias is the current one. Access to the
> current LKML subscriber list would supply the needed info as to which
> one to pick.

Validation of what?
The current alias is the most recent active one.

I'm not subscribed to the LKML with a public address.
Please Cc: me if you submit a patch for this so I can add a Nacked-By: 
and/or cleanup the list by removing redundant entires. Even if git-shortlog 
is changed to distinguish between people who share the same name, it would 
still be a list of exceptions rather than everyone.

-- 
Simon Arlott