Re: [PATCH] mailmap: Fix Andrey Drobyshev author email

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 20:42, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 02:46:44PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > What did you mean by "we prefer to avoid adding more entries" ?
> > It reads to me like "don't add more entries even if we get more
> > accidental attributed-to-the-list commits" (and I was actually
> > thinking about replying to this patch to say "the mailmap file
> > says we shouldn't add more of these lines"), but presumably since
> > you've reviewed this patch that wasn't the actual intention.
> > Maybe the comment could use clarification.
>
> Indeed, it is meant more along the lines of "because our build process
> was tweaked to warn us in advance of merging more commits that suffer
> from the same problem, we shouldn't be having to continually increase
> the size of this section", or even "if you end up adding a line here,
> please also take the time to figure out what part of our build process
> failed to catch it in advance" (in this particular instance, the
> failure was effectively that we were grepping for 'via qemu-devel',
> not 'via qemu-.*').

I've adjusted the line in the apply-pullreq script:
https://git.linaro.org/people/pmaydell/misc-scripts.git/commit/?id=f9a317392e83c84e4fdfcff554f64da3dfb7907b

Richard, Stefan: you probably want to update your copies.

(I also noticed we have a few commits from 2021 that were
attributed to qemu-ppc@nongnu.org.)

thanks
-- PMM