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Re: Repository for the conversion machinery
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus dot com>, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:36:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: Repository for the conversion machinery
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- References: <20150827143810 dot GA10920 at thyrsus dot com> <1440768782 dot 5089 dot 33 dot camel at otta> <alpine dot DEB dot 2 dot 10 dot 1508281347060 dot 5939 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20150828150239 dot GB9723 at thyrsus dot com> <alpine dot DEB dot 2 dot 10 dot 1508281518160 dot 5939 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <alpine dot DEB dot 2 dot 10 dot 1508281520090 dot 5939 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <55E081EA dot 7080304 at redhat dot com> <20150828155724 dot GB10894 at thyrsus dot com> <55E0994E dot 9070207 at redhat dot com> <CAJeAr6sw3NmGLrXYGcLMkXL9THgU6Odb0KrCJAJud6sKB3ob2w at mail dot gmail dot com>
>> cagney = Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
> cagney@gnu.org?
Good point. The email identities of people change over time; forcing
a single arbitrary one to label all contributions is at best imprecise
and at worse a miscrediting. (This is one way in which the impersonal
USERID@gcc.gnu.org aliases work better.)
- FChE