Re: [PATCH 0/6] Corrections to the mailmap file

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

On 07/11/2013 07:33 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

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I intend to contact each of the persons individually and ask whether 
just their mail address changed, or if they are indeed different persons.

Has anything happen to this topic sice you posted?
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I do see the benefit of the openess, when discussing code 
or documentation, but I wonder if you'd also like to see these
'Hello, are you the person having email x, y and z?' 
kind of mails put on the mailing list as well. 

I read, from your 'I intend to contact ... individiually', that you
would have already sent such private inquiries.

I was reviewing my mailbox for possible "fell into cracks" topics,
and found that nothing seems to have happened since then. I guessed
that since they you may already have received responses to allow us
to move forward with this series, hence my "ping".

I do not see a need for "are you still at this address?" to be made
in public.  It is fine and probably even preferrable to see a single
patch that corrects multiple .mailmap entries, with a proposed log
message that says "I've contacted everybody whose address is
affected by this change and made sure the replacement address is
correct."  We trust you ;-)

Of course, you may want to Bcc: such a patch to them to give them
another chance to double-check as a courtesy.

Thanks.