Em Fri, 04 May 2018 13:58:39 +0300 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Fri, 04 May 2018, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From now on, I'll start using my @kernel.org as my development e-mail. > > > > As such, let's remove the entries that point to the old > > mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at MAINTAINERS file. > > > > For the files written with a copyright with mchehab@s-opensource, > > let's keep Samsung on their names, using mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx, > > in order to keep pointing to my employer, with sponsors the work. > > > > For the files written before I join Samsung (on July, 4 2013), > > let's just use mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx. > > > > For bug reports, we can simply point to just kernel.org, as > > this will reach my mchehab+samsung inbox anyway. > > I suppose this begs the question, why do we insist on adding our email > addresses all over the place? On a quick grep, there are at least 40k+ > email addresses in the sources. Do we expect them all to be up-to-date > too? That's a good question. The usual use case is that the e-mail allows people to contact developers if needed. Such contact could simply due to something like handling SPDX or other license-related issues or for troubleshooting. There's also another reason (with IMHO, is more relevant): just the name may not be enough to uniquely identify the author of some code. While that might happen on occidental Countries, this is a way more relevant for Asian Countries. For example, there are very few surnames on some Countries there[1], and common names are usually... common. So, it is not hard to find several people with exactly the same name working at the same company. I've seen e-mails from those people that are things like john.doe51@some.company, john.doe69@some.company, ... [1] For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_surnames. The e-mail is a way to uniquely identify a person. If we remove it, then we may need to add another thing instead (like parents names, security number or whatever), with would be weird, IMO. As we all use e-mails to uniquely identify contributors submissions, IMHO, the best is to keep using e-mails. The side effect is that we should keep those emails updated. - In the specific case of this patch, as I'm now just using @kernel.org everywhere within the Kernel tree, I don't expect needing to change it in long term. Thanks, Mauro
