Re: Generate 'AUTHORS'

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2015-06-30 15:59 +0300) wrote:
>
> Cyril Roelandt <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On 06/29/2015 09:26 PM, Alex Kost wrote:
>>> However I see an issue with the autogenerated AUTHORS.  There will be
>>> duplicates since people not always use a single name/e-mail.  For
>>> example, there are:
>>
>> The proper way to fix this (and this should probably be done with or
>> without this patch) is to use a .mailmap[1] file in our git repo. This
>> will allow us to group all commits of an author even if they used
>> different emails/name spellings.

Wow, great!  I didn't know about this feature, thank you!

> Nice, didn’t know that.  I guess we should create a .mailmap based on
> the current AUTHORS file, which is authoritative.  Alex, are you willing
> to do that?

Yes, I will do that.  But before sending a patch I have some questions
to people about their "canonical" names/e-mails that should be put in
.mailmap:

- Ricardo: <address@hidden> or <address@hidden>?

- Mark: Mark H Weaver or Mark H. Weaver?

- Amirouche: "amz3 <address@hidden>" or "Amirouche Boubekki
  <address@hidden>"?  (I suppose these belongs to a single
  person)

- Ben: <address@hidden> or <address@hidden>?

- Christopher: Christopher Allan Webber or Christopher A. Webber?

- Tomáš: <address@hidden> or <address@hidden>?

- Taylan: Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer or Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer?

- David: <address@hidden> or <address@hidden>?

- Cyprien Nicolas: Nicolas is a name, right?  So I think the preferable
  form would be "Nicolas Cyprien", no?


P.S.: I Cc-ed all the people, so make sure to remove them all during
answering to prevent spamming them.

-- 
Alex