I have implemented the ability for an email address to be declared as
an alias in an author map file. When this is done, that alias will be
recognized
in ChangeLog attributions and mapped back to the base address for
which it is an alias when filling inm Author attributions. However,
the timezone on the alias
This covers contributors who have had multiple addresses in the past
(possibly in different timezones), aggergating all their authorship
attributions to their preferred addresses. (This will become
especially relevant if the policy dcision to attribute to gnu.org
addresses when possible is made.)
Several contributors had sent me past aliases. Now they're used.
Note: if you have not yet reported a timezone, please try to send me
an IANA zone designation - e.g. "Europe/Berlin" rather than "CET".
This decreases the odds that my date-resolution logic will do
something not quite right on dates with daylight saving time in
effect.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
The kind of charity you can force out of people nourishes about as much as
the kind of love you can buy --- and spreads even nastier diseases.
