From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Policy regarding adding email addresses to '.mailmap'. Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 09:38:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87k2u9ok5o.fsf@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50279) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZD6RJ-0007be-7u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 03:40:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZD6RD-0006Tk-Ku for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 03:40:13 -0400 Received: from smtp24.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.58]:35915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZD6RD-0006Qq-Al for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 03:40:07 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.openmailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 369762E0228 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 09:40:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.34]) by localhost (mail.openmailbox.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id gEOHQJDpReQV for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 09:40:04 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org 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