Re: Who wrote 2.6.28

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:49:27 -0500
Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> One of the things which get confusing is that people's employers
> change over time, so if you are mapping engineers to company, it's not
> enough to use just an e-mail address and map it to a company name;
> ideally you need to take an e-mail address and/or name and date range,
> and then map that to a compay name.  For example Alan Cox was
> previously at Red Hat, but he will be changing employers to Intel as
> of some date in January, 2009, but he will be keeping his e-mail
> address.

FWIW, the gitdm code handles that just fine.  Of course, it does
require keeping the database current, which is always a challenge. 

jon
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