[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add .mailmap

[Josh de Kock]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Thilo Borgmann wrote:
> 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.

Pushed.

I will send a patch to add the script to compute the general assembly soon.

-- 
Josh