Git conversion: fixing email addresses from ChangeLog files

[Richard Earnshaw (lists)]

On 29/12/2019 22:24, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Richard Earnshaw (lists) <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>:
>> Also, for this one:
>>
>> #  "47044": "<bjornw@planetarion.com>",
>>
>> There's some (relatively weak) evidence that this is Bjørn Wennberg (eg
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.databases.sybase/Uz8ICef9Qr8/uPwanH6is60J),
>> but in the absence of stronger evidence, I'm going to just put bjornw as
>> the name.
> 
> What's weak about that?  The full email address matches.  Un;rdd you
> think there are two hackers nameed Bjorn, with a last initial of W,
> running around using the same email address, I think we have a winner.
> 

Weak in the sense that it isn't proof given that the user name is
partially redacted.  There's nothing in the gcc archives that gives a
full name either, unfortunately.

Yes, it's the most likely match, but there's still an element of doubt.

R.