linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:56:41 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Cc:	Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andre Renaud <andre@...ewatersys.com>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Andrew Victor <avictor.za@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>, Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address
 across the kernel

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:55:49 +0900
Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> > I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly.
> > 
> Is this sort of churn really necessary?

Yes - stale email addresses cause all sorts of problems, particularly if
in the future the address is re-used in the company. It also causes
confusion over who owns and maintains stuff because it's never obvious
whether the resolution of an unknown address is

A.	'user has moved on, follow the user'

B.	'user has moved on, company probably has someone else assigned
	 to it'

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