From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Policy regarding adding email addresses to '.mailmap'. Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:18:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87si8xfxd3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k2u9ok5o.fsf@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41042) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZD8uE-0001D0-5w for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 06:18:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZD8u9-0002L0-Sx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 06:18:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k2u9ok5o.fsf@openmailbox.org> (Mathieu Lirzin's message of "Thu, 09 Jul 2015 09:38:27 +0200") 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: Mathieu Lirzin Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mathieu Lirzin 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=E2=80=99s only for people who= want to choose among several addresses that they=E2=80=99ve used, or people whose recorded email address is no longer valid.)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=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99t. :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.