Re: RFC: MAINTAINER email address style?

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	randy.dunlap@oracle.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: MAINTAINER email address style?
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 17:48:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090510174818.c5ccaa36.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090510205326.GA22578@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Sun, 10 May 2009 22:53:26 +0200 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> > Should names and email addresses in MAINTAINERS be integrated?
> > Should it stay as-is or be changed to:
> > 
> > M: name <email>
> > M: name2 <email2>
> 
> I strongly prefer this style. It fits the way I do
> copy'n'paste of selected email addresses.
> 
> If I want to add Rafael in a Cc: line I have to
> anually add "" to surround his name due to the "J." and I
> have to manually add <>.

Yup, I do that operation many times per day and it's a pita.  I'd much
prefer something in MAINTAINERS which I can just copy-n-paste into a 
changelog and into an email client.

I go to my email client address book first, because it presents the
info in the correct form, and has tab-completion.  But sometimes my
address book has people's non-preferred or old addresses in it, and not
everyone has an address book as voluminous as mine.