From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
To: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] checkpatch.pl investigation: NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF issues
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:09:52 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2009281706250.4154@felia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABJPP5Dws9Q_5A0LeSWSTb-dgSQiguU5rOF-cEvDTTrfonfmEQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> >
> > How about just starting a new thread instead?
> >
> > I will answer on the new thread.
> >
> > Lukas
> >
>
> Sure, I will.
>
> Also did my last mail go through to you?
>
Yes, that went through. I just did not have some immediate thought on any
further response. I think it is a good idea but I had no strong feeling on
louding rejecting or loudly raising acknowledgement to the idea.
Just go for it.
Lukas
> Quoted:
> > So I did run my script to evaluate the type of errors that were generated.
> > My results are from commits between v5.7 and v5.8
> >
> > 1) Same address, different name
> > There were 32 such instances. In general, there was no regularity in the
> > specific error.
> >
> > There were some cases with letter case mismatch. Like there was one
> > committer who used the names "Arend Van Spriel", and "Arend van Spriel".
> > I believe this error should not be generated and matching be made case
> > neutral.
> >
> > Apart from this, the rest of the cases in this category were some with missing
> > first or last names, using names in other languages or having commas in
> > one name, using initials etc. These should be warned about.
> >
> > 2) Same name, different address
> > There were 204 such instances. Most of them were of the form in which they
> > used a completely different email address.
> >
> > Only one case was found with an email extension.
> > <hpeter@gmail.com>
> > <hpeter+linux_kernel@gmail.com>
> > in commit 423d9118c624
> >
> > So in general I think most email mismatches should be specified by a WARN
> > and for email extension there should be a --strict CHECK.
> > What do you think of this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dwaipayan.
>
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-18 10:06 [Linux-kernel-mentees] checkpatch.pl investigation: NO_AUTHOR_SIGN_OFF issues Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-18 10:29 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-09-18 10:44 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-21 9:07 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-09-21 9:12 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-21 9:15 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-22 13:21 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-09-22 18:38 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-22 19:08 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-09-23 7:32 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-23 7:38 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-09-23 7:42 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-25 4:18 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-09-25 7:20 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-25 7:29 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-09-25 7:35 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-26 11:31 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-09-28 13:30 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-09-28 14:09 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-28 14:20 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-09-28 15:09 ` Lukas Bulwahn [this message]
2020-09-28 15:06 ` Lukas Bulwahn
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