Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel

[Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>]

On 10/06/11 13:51, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:31:54PM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>> On 10/06/11 13:24, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:13 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>>>> On 10/06/11 13:11, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/06/11 12:55, Paul Mundt wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>>>>>>>> I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address
>>>>>>>> accordingly.
>>>>>>> Is this sort of churn really necessary?
>>>>> get_maintainer uses the name and address in the first seen
>>>>> commit matching on the full name where possible.
>>>> Okay, what is the correct fix then so that people get the right email
>>>> address for me?
>>> I believe updating the MAINTAINERS file and
>>> authoring and committing patches that take
>>> your email address out of files works well.
>> If I strip my email address, but leave my name and copyright in the
>> files the patch will have the same amount of churn right?
>>
> Not necessarily. You can leave the copyright bits intact but simply
> update (or strip out) the address from the MODULE_AUTHOR part so people
> still get the proper data from modinfo and so on. There are many people
> with non-working email addresses in copyright statements tree-wide, so
> there's certainly a precedent for it. It's also a motivator for not
> bothering with inlining the email address in the future, unless it's to
> avoid ambiguity (ie, a work done on behalf of an employer, who retains
> all rights).
>
> If there are files that you have authored but get_maintainers is
> groveling the commits and using your old address, you can preempt this by
> simply adding a MAINTAINERS entry with the appropriate file pattern, too.

Okay, so what is the preferred solution. Do I leave the old address in 
the files and add MAINTAINERS entries for everything with my correct 
address, or do I delete my email address (but leave my name) in all of 
the files?

~Ryan