Hi,

We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.

There's a few reasons:
* We should accurately map pre-developer-status contributions.
For example, it'd be nice if sam@cmpct.info was mapped correctly
into sam@gentoo.org when doing git blame.

We know sam@cmpct.info and sam@gentoo.org are the same person, it
feels coherent to tell git that via the mechanism intended for it.

* It's useful for when people retire as well. Not that I plan on going
anywhere any time soon (sorry!), but this is both a useful way for
people to better "retain credit" *and* for e.g. 'git blame' to work
better if they then come back as a contributor but not a developer, which
happens on occasion, or if they occasionally contribute with a
different email address (we have this for some devs who contribute
under a "work context" too).

* It allows people to have git respecting changing their name for
various reasons (e.g. we've had contributors start using their real name
and vice-versa over the years).

I was considering this anyway but xgqt pinged me about it after
I mentioned it on a recent bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/836936#c12) as well which made me think there's perhaps some merit in it.

thanks,
sam

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Hi,

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 08:39:17AM +0000, Sam James wrote:

Hi,

We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.

yes, I support its addition. All 3 points make sense to me.

Petr

There's a few reasons:
* We should accurately map pre-developer-status contributions.
For example, it'd be nice if sam@cmpct.info was mapped correctly
into sam@gentoo.org when doing git blame.

We know sam@cmpct.info and sam@gentoo.org are the same person, it
feels coherent to tell git that via the mechanism intended for it.

* It's useful for when people retire as well. Not that I plan on going
anywhere any time soon (sorry!), but this is both a useful way for
people to better "retain credit" *and* for e.g. 'git blame' to work
better if they then come back as a contributor but not a developer, which
happens on occasion, or if they occasionally contribute with a
different email address (we have this for some devs who contribute
under a "work context" too).

* It allows people to have git respecting changing their name for
various reasons (e.g. we've had contributors start using their real name
and vice-versa over the years).

I was considering this anyway but xgqt pinged me about it after
I mentioned it on a recent bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/836936#c12) as well which made me think there's perhaps some merit in it.

thanks,
sam

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Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> writes:

We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.

There's a few reasons:
* We should accurately map pre-developer-status contributions.
For example, it'd be nice if sam@cmpct.info was mapped correctly
into sam@gentoo.org when doing git blame.

We know sam@cmpct.info and sam@gentoo.org are the same person, it
feels coherent to tell git that via the mechanism intended for it.

* It's useful for when people retire as well. Not that I plan on going
anywhere any time soon (sorry!), but this is both a useful way for
people to better "retain credit" *and* for e.g. 'git blame' to work
better if they then come back as a contributor but not a developer, which
happens on occasion, or if they occasionally contribute with a
different email address (we have this for some devs who contribute
under a "work context" too).

* It allows people to have git respecting changing their name for
various reasons (e.g. we've had contributors start using their real name
and vice-versa over the years).

I was considering this anyway but xgqt pinged me about it after
I mentioned it on a recent bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/836936#c12) as well which made me think there's perhaps some merit in it.

thanks,
sam

+1. I'd like my old contributions mapped too ;)
--
Arsen Arsenović

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On Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 02:39 CST, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:

Hi,

We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.

There's a few reasons:
[...]

+1

You can add

* allows to fix up accidental commits with wrong e-mails as well. *cough*

Best,
Matthias

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Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> writes:

[[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
Hi,

We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.

Done in aa4b05d520ebfd044d8a852d7d48937ab160f48d.

There's a few reasons:
* We should accurately map pre-developer-status contributions.
For example, it'd be nice if sam@cmpct.info was mapped correctly
into sam@gentoo.org when doing git blame.

We know sam@cmpct.info and sam@gentoo.org are the same person, it
feels coherent to tell git that via the mechanism intended for it.

* It's useful for when people retire as well. Not that I plan on going
anywhere any time soon (sorry!), but this is both a useful way for
people to better "retain credit" *and* for e.g. 'git blame' to work
better if they then come back as a contributor but not a developer, which
happens on occasion, or if they occasionally contribute with a
different email address (we have this for some devs who contribute
under a "work context" too).

* It allows people to have git respecting changing their name for
various reasons (e.g. we've had contributors start using their real name
and vice-versa over the years).

I was considering this anyway but xgqt pinged me about it after
I mentioned it on a recent bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/836936#c12) as well which made me think there's perhaps some merit in it.

thanks,
sam

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