Re: [RFC PATCH 08/21] contrib/gitdm: Add Mentor Graphics to the domain map

[Jan Kiszka]

On 05.10.20 22:52, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
>> Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is a number of contributors from this domain,
>>>> add its own entry to the gitdm domain map.
>>>
>>> At some point the main branding will be Siemens; not sure how you want to 
>>> handle that.
>>
>> We've already done something similar with WaveComp who have rolled up
>> the various mips and imgtec contributions into
>> contrib/gitdm/group-map-wavecomp.
>>
>> It's really up to you and which corporate entity would like internet
>> bragging points. The only Siemens contributor I could find is Jan Kiszka
>> but he has contributed a fair amount ;-)
> 
> Given that the Mentor branding is going away (and the "Mentor Graphics" 
> version largely has gone away, "Mentor, a Siemens Business" is what's 
> currently used as a Mentor brand), probably it makes sense to use Siemens 
> for both codesourcery.com and mentor.com addresses.
> 

I think the key question is what this map is used for: Is it supposed to
document the historic status, who was who at the time of contribution?
Or is its purpose to help identifying the copyright holder of a
contribution today?

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, T RDA IOT
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux