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Re: Repository for the conversion machinery
- From: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot gcc at googlemail dot com>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, esr at thyrsus dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:21:02 +0100
- Subject: Re: Repository for the conversion machinery
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
>> [...]
>> >- rewrite history - use some totally arbitrary, and quickly outdated,
>> >internet identity
>
>> I think this is main reason why @gnu.org or @gmail.com style addresses
>> are preferred over employer addresses when there's > 1 address on file.
>
> That makes sense, but how many people are in cagney's shoes (with more
> than one non-gcc.gnu.org email address in their commit history)? It
> sounds like they should all be canonicalized to USER@gcc.gnu.org.
I think if you dug there would be enough folks who've moved employment
over time and others who may change employers over time. Fixing this
to a non gcc.gnu.org in the commit logs is just going to cause
annoyance and confusion over time and I think we're better off with
just avoiding it. After all the information is in the changelog and in
the commit - currently svn log shows username with an implicit
gcc.gnu.org.
I can certainly say I'm in those shoes - you can work that out from
the Changelogs and I'm sure there may be others too.
It sounds like gcc.gnu.org is the safest map for everyone.
regards
Ramana
>
> - FChE