[PATCH v6] mailmap: add file to DPDK

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Sun Nov 27 11:27:13 CET 2022


> > From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > 
> > Since a number of contributors to DPDK have submitted patches to DPDK
> > under more than one email address, we should maintain a mailmap file to
> > properly track their commits using "shortlog".

and to do accurate automatic Cc with "get_maintainer.pl".

> > It also helps fix up any mangled names, for example, with
> > surname/firstname reversed, or with incorrect capitalization.
> > By keeping this file in the DPDK repository, rather than committers
> > maintaining their own copies, it allows individual contributors to edit
> > it to update their own email address preferences if so desired.
> > 
> > While at it, update our checkpatches.sh script and add some
> > documentation to help new contributors.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > +Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com> 
> <cristian.dumitrescu at yahoo.com>
> 
> The above yahoo.com address under my name was a mistake and it is not valid, therefore it should probably be removed from here.

Fixed

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Added exception in devtools/check-spdx-tag.sh,

Applied, thanks.

Now we have a list of contributors :)




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