On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:30:57PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Andreas Schwab wrote: >>> I've been waiting until I had the time to rewrite my import with proper >>> author names. Does anyone have a correspondence file mapping the login >>> name to Author? >> I have a list that is about 4 months old. Should be pretty complete. > >Cute. How about adding this to the GCC repository in some file parallel >to our MAINTAINERS file? Something like MAINTAINERS.logins or so? > >On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Samuel Tardieu wrote: >> I also think adding the Real Name is nice. >> >> Maybe we should also consider adding the login as an additional field >> in the MAINTAINERS file, as AFAIK every MAINTAINERS as a @gcc.gnu.org >> address. > >That would be an alternative. It would increase the width of MATINAINERS >above 80 characters, and I'm not sure how much of an issue that would be.
I don't think adding YA place that has to be updated when things change is a good idea. If this is a script that runs on gcc.gnu.org then you should be able to get the full name with a minimal amount of effort using a getpw* function. cgf
