From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:17:41 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87r45ikwiy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20140331143925.283A3380492@snark.thyrsus.com> <53397FA9.2070102@cs.ucla.edu> <20140331180454.GA28200@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396293707 6991 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2014 19:21:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:21:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 21:21:41 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 1WUhm1-0005Es-LQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:21:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50917 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUhkh-0000zR-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUhia-0005sj-97 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUhiU-0004GP-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:18:00 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38103) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUhiU-0004GL-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WUhiR-00062q-9p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:17:51 +0200 Original-Received: from x2f480d1.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.128.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:17:51 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by x2f480d1.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:17:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f480d1.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:z8C0OpKDXtvbe6dHw5xfuycoxeE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:171227 Archived-At: "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > 1. Attribution to "Jan D. " vs. > "Jan Djärv " > > 2. Attribution to "Richard Stallman" vs. "Richard M. Stallman". [...] > 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. Git uses .mailmap in the top directory to establish reliable single identities for purposes of reputation measures like "git shortlog". Since name and mail address changes will continue to occur during ongoing development, it is utterly pointless to "fix" that in the history. -- David Kastrup