On 2015.08.23 at 11:36 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > 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 until explicitly superseded by a different address in the archive.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?
Another possibility would be to simply use the @gcc.gnu.org addresses. That should make the mapping pretty straightforward. -- Markus
