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Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history |
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Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:04:54 -0400 |
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Eric Hanchrow <address@hidden>:
> What Paul said. Eric's own rule of thumb was that the result of the
> conversion should look as if git had been in use the entire time; that
> would imply that the "name at the time of contribution" would have
> been recorded.
That is a good argument. But there is another kind of ID change that
I don't think has the same kind of weight as the intentional change
from "Michael" to "Thomas" Bushnell. Consider the differences between
1. Attribution to "Jan D. <address@hidden>" vs.
"Jan Djärv <address@hidden>"
2. Attribution to "Richard Stallman" vs. "Richard M. Stallman".
I don't think fixing these is problematic, because doing so does not
change the name the person was using at time of contribution; rather,
it restores parts of that name that were casually elided.
The reason I care about coalescing such cases is because I think it helps
everybody if (for example) "Jan Djärv" is a reliable single identity for
purposes of reputation measures, whether informal or formalized via
something like Ohloh Kudos rank.
"Thomas Bushnell" actually wants to have a different reputation, a
different social identity, from "Michael Bushnell". That's the point
of taking a religious name. "Jan D.", on the other hand, is not
intended to be a different reputational identity than "Jan Djärv" (or
at least I assume it isn't Jan can correct that if he wishes).
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Paul Eggert, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, David Kastrup, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Eric Hanchrow, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history,
Eric S. Raymond <=
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Andreas Schwab, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Juanma Barranquero, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Juanma Barranquero, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Andreas Schwab, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/03/31
- Re: Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, David Kastrup, 2014/03/31
Mangled and unclear attributions in the Emacs history, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/03/31