On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 01:13:20PM +0100, David Marchand wrote: > From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > > 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. > By keeping this file in the DPDK repository, rather than committers > maintaining their own copies, it allows individual contributors to edit > it to update their own email address preferences if so desired. > > While at it, update our checkpatches.sh script and add some > documentation to help new contributors. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> > --- > Changes since v3: > - fixed some issues with non iso characters in names, > - added .mailmap to MAINTAINERS, > - populated .mailmap with the contributors file Thomas and I maintain, > - added a check so that people will stop mangling their own names, > - added a note in the contributing guide, > Do we really want to require all contributors to add their names to the mailmap file, it seems excessive to me and onerous on new contributors? I would expect the mailmap to be only necessary for tracking mail updates, or fixing already-mangled names.
/Bruce
