From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:49:42 +0900 Message-ID: <87ob0ln1yh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20140331143925.283A3380492@snark.thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396324209 11265 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2014 03:50:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 03:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 05:50:03 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 1WUpi1-0007XX-Su for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:49:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52446 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUpi1-0001rU-Gr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUphu-0001qx-6k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:49:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUpho-0006CK-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:49:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:43462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUpho-0006CC-IN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092619700A7; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 12:49:43 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F1D961A28DC; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 12:49:42 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <20140331143925.283A3380492@snark.thyrsus.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:171241 Archived-At: Eric S. Raymond writes: > MON KEY = MON KEY Asian, IIRC, and if so, no problem. > Nix = Nix Change that one and I won't know who you're talking about. Nix is Nix. > More generally, what do we consider most useful in the event of > a personal name change: name at time of contribution or most > recent name? I have no particular opinion about this. I think leaving a little fuzz in the statistics is the most important consideration. We are human beings, not numbers.