From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:04:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140331180454.GA28200@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHZoxq8PtsQJaiHYug83vsR3xjYQAvYver7GKnku=G6rd2EgTA@mail.gmail.com>
Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>:
> What Paul said. Eric's own rule of thumb was that the result of the
> conversion should look as if git had been in use the entire time; that
> would imply that the "name at the time of contribution" would have
> been recorded.
That is a good argument. But there is another kind of ID change that
I don't think has the same kind of weight as the intentional change
from "Michael" to "Thomas" Bushnell. Consider the differences between
1. Attribution to "Jan D. <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>" vs.
"Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>"
2. Attribution to "Richard Stallman" vs. "Richard M. Stallman".
I don't think fixing these is problematic, because doing so does not
change the name the person was using at time of contribution; rather,
it restores parts of that name that were casually elided.
The reason I care about coalescing such cases is because I think it helps
everybody if (for example) "Jan Djärv" is a reliable single identity for
purposes of reputation measures, whether informal or formalized via
something like Ohloh Kudos rank.
"Thomas Bushnell" actually wants to have a different reputation, a
different social identity, from "Michael Bushnell". That's the point
of taking a religious name. "Jan D.", on the other hand, is not
intended to be a different reputational identity than "Jan Djärv" (or
at least I assume it isn't Jan can correct that if he wishes).
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-31 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-31 14:39 Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 14:46 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-31 14:56 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-31 16:37 ` Eric Hanchrow
2014-03-31 18:04 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-03-31 18:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-31 19:34 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 20:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-31 20:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 20:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-31 20:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 22:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-04-01 2:15 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-31 19:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-01 3:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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