Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

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On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Linus Torvalds
> > There is no real _value_ in making a .mailcap for each such buggy entry is
> > what I'm trying to tell you. Those things are maybe used for statistics.
> > On the whole, they are correct.
> 
> I was trying to track how many real people were working on the kernel.
>  If we don't collapse the 13 different versions of you down to one
> person the number numbers are way off.

If you have a cleaned up .mailmap file which doesn't include unneeded 
entries then just submit it for inclusion.  If someone else eventually 
cares to check and update it then another patch should come forth at 
that point.  That doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.


Nicolas
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