From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
To: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@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 19:50:08 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABJPP5Dws9Q_5A0LeSWSTb-dgSQiguU5rOF-cEvDTTrfonfmEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2009281608130.4154@felia>
>
> 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?
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 [this message]
2020-09-28 15:09 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-09-28 15:06 ` Lukas Bulwahn
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