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 16:56:52 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87zjk6l8ln.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20140331143925.283A3380492@snark.thyrsus.com> <53397FA9.2070102@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396277850 3479 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2014 14:57:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:57:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 16:57:24 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 1WUdeI-000234-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:57:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49204 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUdeI-0006TN-9m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:57:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUdeB-0006SL-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUde5-0007pw-8M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47323) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUde5-0007pj-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WUde3-0001M6-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:57:03 +0200 Original-Received: from x2f44bbe.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.75.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:57:03 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by x2f44bbe.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:57:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f44bbe.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:PTMx8tooEItTjMMmPfPfYh4UDHs= 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:171215 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > Eric S. Raymond wrote: >> what do we consider most useful in the event of >> a personal name change: name at time of contribution or most >> recent name? > > Name at time of contribution, though it's not a big deal. .mailmap can be used for mapping historical mail addresses to a current identity. -- David Kastrup