Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:45:59 -0400
From:	"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.com>
To:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: 463 kernel developers missing!

Here's a new .mailmap file for the kernel that cleans up the horrible
mess of names and email addresses in the log.  To use it put it at the
root of your kernel tree and type 'git shortlog'. Before the clean up
there were 4,284 developers, after 3,821. There are 5,051 unique
emails.

The mailmap file contains all email addresses that have been used to
submit patches to the kernel. Don't freak out about your email address
being in the file, if it is in the file it is already in Google since
the kernel log is already in Google.

Putting all the email addresses and names into this file allows it to
be used as a basis for future validation. Since I don't know perl, can
someone whip up a patch to checkpatch.pl that validates the emails in
new patches against the ones in mailmap? Then if you aren't in mailmap
part of your commit needs to include a new entry for mailmap.

Another useful script would take the output of "git log | grep ^Author
| sort -u" and diff the list of email address against the mailmap
file.  Any new emails found are new people that need to be added to
mailmap. Only the emails should be checked, not the names.

Please excuse any errors I made in the clean up process, a large
portion of it was done manually. After the base file is in we can
patch it to fix the errors. For those of you using a dozen aliases,
you might want to order them so that your current email is the last
one in the list. James Bottomley has the most aliases, 13.

PS It's not a diff because it would be too big to post.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@...il.com

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