From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Meyering Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs.git mirror status Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:02:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87r6kzgkjg.fsf@rho.meyering.net> References: <87y7f9n06z.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87sl5hmz2t.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <86zlzpr663.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87hclxmvad.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <874phwl22x.fsf@rho.meyering.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189926163 29107 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2007 07:02:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:02:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 16 09:02:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IWo9P-0003zI-UA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:02:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWo9O-0003vC-MZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:02:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWo9L-0003v4-4X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:02:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWo9I-0003us-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWo9I-0003up-HX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWo9H-0004l0-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.29]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWo9H-00025W-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521DA5A0B0 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:02:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mx.meyering.net (mx.meyering.net [82.230.74.64]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC1F5A09C for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:02:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister, from userid 1000) id BCAEF8F0A; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:02:27 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:01:35 +0200") Original-Lines: 48 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79019 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab wrote: > Jim Meyering writes: >> I've compared our files and added the 18 name/email pairs from yours that >> mine lacked. Mine has 9 that yours lacks, > > My author list only contains the actual user names recorded in the > history. There are 8 current members at Savannah that never committed > to CVS, and I doesn't look like the 9 authors from your list have any > commits either. Oh yeah. I just reused a user/email map file from another project. Having extra pairs is fine. >> Back when I constructed my username/email list, I chose to use the >> historical email address from the ChangeLog, when I could find that. >> It looks like some of the addresses you used are more modern. I don't >> care much, either way. > > I generally used the newest mail address that I could find in the change > logs (some are even less modern than yours :-) ). But I don't care > much, either. > >> And I do recall that "law" was not Jeff -- you could tell from >> the nearby ChangeLog delta. > > The changes from "law" are only on config.sub/config.guess, which were > symlinked to shared RCS files at this time, so there are no change log > entries that belong to any of his commits. I'm pretty sure he is the > same law who is the current owner of law @fencepost. I had to look up some using other means (e.g., google), and maybe that was one of them. I didn't keep notes. >> There were a couple of others like that, like maybe mycroft. Not sure >> about that one. > > "mycroft" is similar, except that there is no such account @fencepost > any more. There are more such differences from the > config.guess/config.sub accounts. > > I think you are wrong about uid65624: from looking at the commit log > style it looks more like Andr=C3=A9 committed on Benjamin's behalf (and I > don't think Benjamin ever had commit access). In that case, perhaps I found/used the author name, rather than the committer name. IMHO, that's what should be used in any case, to properly credit the author. And it's probably ok, since there were so few changes by that uid.