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

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> writes:

> On 07/11/2013 07:33 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> writes:
>>> ...
>>> 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?
>>  ...
> 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.