[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add .mailmap

Thilo Borgmann thilo.borgmann at mail.de
Mon Feb 24 13:19:28 EET 2020


Am 23.02.20 um 21:40 schrieb Josh de Kock:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, at 4:07 PM, Thilo Borgmann wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> How is it automatically generated?
> 
> I wrote a small script to parse author names/emails and group
> emails together based on names. In the future, additions should
> be added manually.

Having that script in tools/ shouldn't hurt, manual updates can get out of sync.
Also authors might be unaware of or forgetting about .mailmap.

If you scriptify the group of people for a general assembly like specified during.... some earlier meeting, that should be committed, too.

.mailmap patch itself LGTM.

Thanks,
Thilo


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