From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:34:57 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140331193457.GA29040@thyrsus.com> References: <20140331143925.283A3380492@snark.thyrsus.com> <53397FA9.2070102@cs.ucla.edu> <20140331180454.GA28200@thyrsus.com> <87y4zq435d.fsf@igel.home> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396294545 17510 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2014 19:35:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , Eric Hanchrow , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 21:35:40 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WUhzf-0006vx-I8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:35:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50969 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUhze-0004JD-WB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:35:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58905) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUhzZ-0004Hw-Dj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:35:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUhzU-000157-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:45720 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUhzU-000153-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:35:28 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A015C380492; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:34:57 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y4zq435d.fsf@igel.home> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171229 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab : > > The reason I care about coalescing such cases is because I think it h= elps > > everybody if (for example) "Jan Dj=C3=A4rv" is a reliable single iden= tity for > > purposes of reputation measures, whether informal or formalized via > > something like Ohloh Kudos rank. >=20 > People who care can create aliases, so I don't think this is really > needed. The devil is in the details. One detail that is interesting in 2014 is "Can the Ohloh crawler see your alias table?". This stands in for a larger question about how, if you suppose that a trust/reputation identity consists of multiple aliases, that equivalence is represented.=20 With a little work - specifically, these commands: =3DC filter --replace /develoeprs/developers/g =3DC filter --replace /=3DConstantin/Constantin/g =3DC filter --replace /Johan Bockgard/Johan Bockg=C3=A5rd/g =3DC filter --replace /Adam Sjogren/Adam Sj=C3=B8gren/g =3DC filter --replace /J=C3=83=C2=A9r=C3=83=C2=A9my Compostella/J=C3=A9r=C3= =A9my Compostella/g =3DC filter --replace /Jeremy Compostella/J=C3=A9r=C3=A9my Compostella/g =3DC filter --replace /Richard Stallman/Richard M. Stallman/g =3DC filter --replace /OReilly/O'Reilly/g =3DC filter --regexp /Jan D\.$/Jan Dj=C3=A4rv/g =3DC filter --replace /K. Handa/Kenichi Handa/g =3DC filter --regexp /Agustin [Mm]artin/Agust=C3=ADn Mart=C3=ADn/g =3DC filter --replace /Eric Ludlam/Eric M. Ludlam/g =3DC filter --regexp /^rms <>/Richard M. Stallman / =3DC filter --regexp /^ /Fab=C3=ADan Ezequel Gallina / =3DC filter --replace /Anders Lindgern/Anders Lindgren/ =3DC filter --replace /Joakim /Joakim Veron= a / =3DC filter --replace /joakim /Joakim Verona / =3DC filter --replace /joakim verona /Joakim Verona / =3DC filter --replace /Karel Klic/Karel Kl=C3=ADc/ =3DC filter --replace /Leo /Leo Liu / =3DC filter --replace /leo /Leo Liu / =3DC filter --replace /Luis Felipe L=C3=83=C2=B3pez Acevedo/Luis Felipe L= =C3=B3pez Acevedo/g =3DC filter --replace /Manuel G=C3=83=C2=B3mez /Manuel = G=C3=B3mez / =3DC filter --replace /Werner Lemberg /Werner LEMBERG / =3DC filter --replace /martin rudalics/Martin Rudalics/g =3DC filter --replace /=C3=83=E2=80=9Cscar Fuentes/=C3=93scar Fuentes/g =3DC filter --replace /Step=C3=A1n Nemec/=C5=A0t=C4=9Bp=C3=A1n N=C4=9Bmec= /g =3DC filter --replace /Andrei Chi u/Andrei Chitu/g =3DC filter --replace /jhd /Jan Dj=C3=A4rv /g =3DC filter --replace /Yair F /Yair Friedman / ...we get to postpone having to deal with that question. --=20 Eric S. Raymond