20/10/2020 17:03, Bruce Richardson: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 04:29:18PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 20/10/2020 15:07, Bruce Richardson: > > > Since a number of contributors to DPDK have submitted patches to DPDK > > > under > > > more than one email address, we should maintain a mailmap file to properly > > > track their commits using "shortlog". It also helps fix up any mangled > > > names, for example, with surname/firstname reversed, or with incorrect > > > capitalization. > > > > I agree it helps fixing typos in names, that's why I have such file. > > To be really useful, we should add every contributors. > > Surely not every contributor has multiple email addresses or their emails > in multiple formats? > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > > > --- > > > > > > while this list is almost certainly incomplete, this should serve as a > > > reasonable start-point for building a more complete one. > > > > Do you want me to write a v2? > > > Feel free to. However, I think the contents should be limited to only those > that need to be there.
Misunderstanding then. The other usage I'm looking at, is your last sentence above: " It also helps fix up any mangled names, for example, with surname/firstname reversed, or with incorrect capitalization. " This usage requires to have everyone listed.
