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Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:49:42 +0900

Eric S. Raymond writes:

 > MON KEY = MON KEY <address@hidden>

Asian, IIRC, and if so, no problem.

 > Nix = Nix <address@hidden>

Change that one and I won't know who you're talking about.  Nix is
Nix.

 > More generally, what do we consider most useful in the event of
 > a personal name change: name at time of contribution or most
 > recent name? I have no particular opinion about this.

I think leaving a little fuzz in the statistics is the most important
consideration.  We are human beings, not numbers.




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