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

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I sent you a copy, feel free to do whatever you want with it.  The
academics doing statistics on Linux will love you for submitting it.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
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