From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Policy regarding adding email addresses to '.mailmap'. Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 10:36:22 +0200 Message-ID: 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]:38919) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZD7Jv-0000KL-Tx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 04:36:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZD7Jn-0006rF-6x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 04:36:39 -0400 Received: from pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.20]:33364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZD7Jm-0006qn-Ta for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 04:36:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k2u9ok5o.fsf@openmailbox.org> 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 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 sam= e > time) ? > > - Is it better to ask the owner which email to choose in AUTHORS or to > use automatically the more recent one? I=E2=80=99m using two email addresses and I alternate between them depend= ing 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?