On Fri 04-05-18 08:33:55, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Fri, 04 May 2018 13:58:39 +0300
> Jani Nikula <[email protected]> escreveu:
>
> > On Fri, 04 May 2018, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > From now on, I'll start using my @kernel.org as my development e-mail.
> > >
> > > As such, let's remove the entries that point to the old
> > > [email protected] at MAINTAINERS file.
> > >
> > > For the files written with a copyright with mchehab@s-opensource,
> > > let's keep Samsung on their names, using [email protected],
> > > in order to keep pointing to my employer, with sponsors the work.
> > >
> > > For the files written before I join Samsung (on July, 4 2013),
> > > let's just use [email protected].
> > >
> > > For bug reports, we can simply point to just kernel.org, as
> > > this will reach my mchehab+samsung inbox anyway.
> >
> > I suppose this begs the question, why do we insist on adding our email
> > addresses all over the place? On a quick grep, there are at least 40k+
> > email addresses in the sources. Do we expect them all to be up-to-date
> > too?
>
> That's a good question.
>
> The usual use case is that the e-mail allows people to contact developers
> if needed. Such contact could simply due to something like handling SPDX
> or other license-related issues or for troubleshooting.
>
> There's also another reason (with IMHO, is more relevant): just the name
> may not be enough to uniquely identify the author of some code. While
> that might happen on occidental Countries, this is a way more relevant
> for Asian Countries. For example, there are very few surnames on
> some Countries there[1], and common names are usually... common. So, it
> is not hard to find several people with exactly the same name working at
> the same company. I've seen e-mails from those people that are things like
> [email protected], [email protected], ...
>
> [1] For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_surnames.
>
> The e-mail is a way to uniquely identify a person. If we remove it,
> then we may need to add another thing instead (like parents names,
> security number or whatever), with would be weird, IMO.
>
> As we all use e-mails to uniquely identify contributors submissions,
> IMHO, the best is to keep using e-mails. The side effect is that
> we should keep those emails updated.
Understood but e-mails in code get stale eventually as people rarely update
those. So I think having a contact email in MAINTAINERS and git logs is
enough for practical purposes.
Honza
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Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR
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