[gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap?

[gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap?

[Sam James]

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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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Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap?

[Maciej Barć]

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Thanks for this Sam.
I would like to see this added to the main Gentoo repo but also urge 
maintainers of other active Gentoo repos to add it to theirs, 
portage(!), kde & lisp overlay, soko, etc.

For a quick reference here is the Exherbo's .mailmap file: 
https://gitlab.exherbo.org/exherbo/arbor/-/blob/master/.mailmap?ref_type=heads

W dniu 13.02.2024 o 09:39, Sam James pisze:
> 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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Have a great day!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap?

[Petr Vaněk]

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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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Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap?

[Arsen Arsenović]

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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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Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap?

[Matthias Maier]

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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap?

[Sam James]

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Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> writes:

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> 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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