Git conversion: fixing email addresses from ChangeLog files

[Richard Earnshaw (lists)]

On 28/12/2019 14:54, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 01:05:13PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Dec 2019, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 07:47:02PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
>>>>       1 Author: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel,crashing.org>
>>>> *    730 Author: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
>>>>       2 Author: Segher Boesssenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
>>>
>>> The first and third are only in changelogs.  The second even happened
>>> only once, afaics?
>>>
>>> These errors only happen in the reposurgeon conversion.
>>
>> This is about extracting attributions from changelogs when unambiguous 
>> there, and then correcting mistakes or otherwise making minor variants 
>> more uniform.
> 
> Yes, and I'm saying you probably shouldn't do that.

Why, for heavens sake?  Even Maxim's conversion is doing this.

> 
> Note that these errors did not exist in the changelog in the commit
> message, for example.

Yes, they did.  Or at least, they did at the time of the original commit.

> 
> Since people very often typo their own name (as the evidence shows), the
> heuristic for deriving it should be robust against that.
> 

And the statistics show that it's not hard to identify the odd cases and
fix them up.  Only committers with just a single commits are really hard
to spot since we don't have data to compare against other entries.

R.