Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:22:36 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: 463 kernel developers missing! |
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:00:13PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > Other people aren't perfect, I've found over 1,000 typos in the those > names and emails. We need a validation mechanism. >
You keep using the word "need"; I do not think it means what you think it does. :-)
Seriously, why is it so important? It's a nice to have, and I recognize that you've spent a bunch of time on it. But if the goal is to get better statistics, and in exchange we forcibly map all Mark Browns to one e-mail address, and/or force them to all adopt middle initials (what if there are two Dan Smith's that don't have middle initials) just for the convenience of your statistics gathering, I would gently suggest to you that you've forgotten which is the tail, and which is the dog.
Regards,
- Ted
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