Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Michael J Gruber wrote:

Reece Dunn venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2010 15:57:

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So, I'll ask again: what problems are you trying to solve that
cannot be solved by mailmap?

- Reece

[Attention, conspiracy theories below!]

The problem seems to be that some people are interested in statistics,
so some are interested in consistent author information, but this
requires others (the authors) to maintain this information, at least on
large projects where this information cannot be kept consistent by a few
people. So, some people are looking for a way to enforce this on the
others... Of course, one could also rephrase this is as "help authors
maintain their authorship information in a consistent way" ;)

but a UUID doesn't help you.

if you can force people to have a consistant UUID, you can force them to 
have a consistant e-mail address (and submit mapping updates if it 
changes)

if you can't force people to maintain a consistant e-mail, why do you 
think they would maintain a consistant UUID?

David Lang