Repository for the conversion machinery

[Jeff Law]

On 09/16/2015 11:21 AM, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
> 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 - rewrite history - use some totally arbitrary, and quickly outdated,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.
Agreed.  In fact, I would say that most of the contributors over time 
have more than one address due to employment changes.

Jeff