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: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:08:34 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140217220834.GA13898@thyrsus.com> References: <20140217152937.8D831380525@snark.thyrsus.com> <87vbwdk0ii.fsf@tao.kanis.fr> <53028359.2000000@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392674953 6978 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2014 22:09:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 17 23:09:20 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 1WFWNJ-0008Oq-K7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 23:09:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFWNJ-0005wO-22 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49156) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFWNB-0005vD-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:09:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFWN7-0000cQ-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:09:09 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:40638 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFWN7-0000bg-Ie for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:09:05 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E4802380525; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:08:34 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53028359.2000000@cs.ucla.edu> 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:169718 Archived-At: Paul Eggert : > While we're on the topic of normalization, is it the intent to > normalize spelling of author and committer names in the repository? > E.g., replace "Fran=E7ois_Pinard" with "Fran=E7ois Pinard" (no > underscore)? Or replace "Richard M. Stallman" and "Richard M > Stallman" with "Richard Stallman"? How about email addresses? That's the first request I've had for this sort of change. It would be easy enough to do. All interested parties may email me normalization requests to be incorporated into the lift script. I would prefer to get them from the owner of the name or email address in question. --=20 Eric S. Raymond