[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mailmap: add a mailmap file to DPDK

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Oct 20 16:29:18 CEST 2020


20/10/2020 15:07, Bruce Richardson:
> 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". It also helps fix up any mangled
> names, for example, with surname/firstname reversed, or with incorrect
> capitalization.

I agree it helps fixing typos in names, that's why I have such file.
To be really useful, we should add every contributors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> ---
> 
> while this list is almost certainly incomplete, this should serve as a
> reasonable start-point for building a more complete one.

Do you want me to write a v2?





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