Messages in this thread | | | From | Philipp Riemer <> | Date | Wed, 16 May 2012 17:01:39 +0200 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] new mailmap file for the linux kernel git repository |
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2012/5/16 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>: > On Wed, 16 May 2012, Greg KH wrote: > >> > In my work I considered the following aspects: >> > * Typos in names >> > * Typos in mails >> > * Mapping of ambiguous mail adresses (e.g. {aa@bb.cc, aa@home.bb.cc, >> > aa@laptop.bb.cc,...} becomes {aa@bb.cc}) >> > * Mapping of names to entries with only email information >> > * Harmonization of position and style of last name (no more all-caps >> > names like "First LAST" or those of "Last, First") >> > * No initials in names if not necessary >> > * Conversion of email addresses to lower case >> > >> > Why did I do this? One reason for that is a missing configuration of >> > Git -- leading to a combination of the name of user (login) and >> > computer (e.g. "me@mybox.local"). Of course this is not a real mail >> > address and most users realize and fix this fact pretty fast. >> > Nevertheless there is at least one commit with wrong data in the >> > codebase. Another reason is spelling. When skimming through the vast >> > list of author names and email addresses one can find many >> > typographical errors such as ".con" instead of ".com" or missing >> > letters. Over time also these get fixed -- but the wrong data is >> > visible. >> > >> > I am pretty confident that I coalesced the data of most of the >> > ambiguous users. But despite having spent so many hours in finding and >> > matching these entries, this work (that I did primarily for my thesis) >> > might be helpful for other researchers as well, such as e.g. Wang Chen >> > as the maintainer of the Linux Kernel Patch Statistic >> > <http://www.remword.com/kps_result/> or Greg, Jonthan, etc. as the >> > authors of "Who writes Linux" >> > <http://go.linuxfoundation.org/who-writes-linux-2012>... >> > >> > Hence, please integrate this file into the official Linux Kernel repository. >> >> You forgot a signed-off-by: line which is required for a patch to be >> accepted :( > > While Greg is at this, the changelogs also really don't really follow the > kernel changelog standards (line wrapping, etc.). > > -- > Jiri Kosina > SUSE Labs
Thank you both for your fast feedback. I really appreciate it.
Since this is my first contribution to the Linux Kernel I am not pretty sure what I have to do. Is there anywhere a guideline how I get a "signed-off"? I sent the mail to the addresses I found via `scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f .mailmap` since I expected those people to be somehow interested in this file. What other steps can I take?
I don't understand the point regarding the changelog standards -- what do you mean with that? I changed the .mailmap file and oriented myself on what was already there... How can I improve the file to fit to the Linux standards? Some hints?
While I did this mainly for my thesis, I thought that my work might be useful for others as well... so if you can give me some hints, I will glad spending some more time and correct the file so that it fits to the guidelines.
Regards, Philipp
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