Policy regarding adding email addresses to '.mailmap'.

Policy regarding adding email addresses to '.mailmap'.

[Mathieu Lirzin]

My questions are about how do we maintain the new '.mailmap' file.

- Do the new addresses need to be added in the same commit where it
  appears or in a separate commit?

- In the case of a separate commit, will it be synchronous or
  asynchronous (meaning that multiples adresses can be added at the same
  time) ?

- Is it better to ask the owner which email to choose in AUTHORS or to
  use automatically the more recent one?

- On the technical side, how to automate the process?

Ideas welcome!

--
Mathieu Lirzin

Re: Policy regarding adding email addresses to '.mailmap'.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@openmailbox.org> writes:

> My questions are about how do we maintain the new '.mailmap' file.
>
> - Do the new addresses need to be added in the same commit where it
>   appears or in a separate commit?
>
> - In the case of a separate commit, will it be synchronous or
>   asynchronous (meaning that multiples adresses can be added at the same
>   time) ?
>
> - Is it better to ask the owner which email to choose in AUTHORS or to
>   use automatically the more recent one?

I’m using two email addresses and I alternate between them depending on
what I do (bioinfo stuff is done mostly from the official office email
address, whereas other stuff is sent from my private email address).

> - On the technical side, how to automate the process?

Does it need automation at all?

Re: Policy regarding adding email addresses to '.mailmap'.

[Alex Kost]

Mathieu Lirzin (2015-07-09 10:38 +0300) wrote:

> My questions are about how do we maintain the new '.mailmap' file.
>
> - Do the new addresses need to be added in the same commit where it
>   appears or in a separate commit?

I'm for a separate commit.

> - In the case of a separate commit, will it be synchronous or
>   asynchronous (meaning that multiples adresses can be added at the same
>   time) ?

I believe multiple addresses may be added in the same commit.

> - Is it better to ask the owner which email to choose in AUTHORS or to
>   use automatically the more recent one?

I think it's always better to ask.

> - On the technical side, how to automate the process?

I don't see how it may be automate.

-- 
Alex

Re: Policy regarding adding email addresses to '.mailmap'.

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:

> I’m using two email addresses and I alternate between them depending on
> what I do (bioinfo stuff is done mostly from the official office email
> address, whereas other stuff is sent from my private email address).

Correct me If I'm wrong. You mean that you would prefer that only your
your private email address appears in AUTHORS even if your last commit
was made using your office address?

--
Mathieu Lirzin

Re: Policy regarding adding email addresses to '.mailmap'.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@openmailbox.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> I’m using two email addresses and I alternate between them depending on
>> what I do (bioinfo stuff is done mostly from the official office email
>> address, whereas other stuff is sent from my private email address).
>
> Correct me If I'm wrong. You mean that you would prefer that only your
> your private email address appears in AUTHORS even if your last commit
> was made using your office address?

Correct.  My private address will hopefully outlast any office email
address.

~~ Ricardo

Re: Policy regarding adding email addresses to '.mailmap'.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@openmailbox.org> skribis:

> - Do the new addresses need to be added in the same commit where it
>   appears or in a separate commit?

Separate, but I expect changes to be rare (it’s only for people who want
to choose among several addresses that they’ve used, or people whose
recorded email address is no longer valid.)

> - In the case of a separate commit, will it be synchronous or
>   asynchronous (meaning that multiples adresses can be added at the same
>   time) ?

It’s fine to add several at once, if needed.

> - Is it better to ask the owner which email to choose in AUTHORS or to
>   use automatically the more recent one?

Yes, better ask.

> - On the technical side, how to automate the process?

We don’t.  :-)

Ludo’.