On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:26:25PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > One way to do it would be to mine the list archives for not just names > but name-date pairs. With a little scripting work that could be processed > into a sequence of map files, each one valid for a known span of dates. The > only assumption required is that an email address is valid for a person > until explicitly superseded by a different address in the archive.
We also have a MAINTAINERS file (in the toplevel dir of the repo) that should hold useful email addresses for everyone, at any point in time. Of course sometimes people forget to update it. It also does not hold the actual account names, but you can almost always get those from the checkin to the MAINTAINERS file itself (or correlate with ChangeLogs, etc.) Won't that work better than the ML archives? Segher
