On 10/6/20 11:44 AM, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> writes: > >> On 05.10.20 22:52, Joseph Myers wrote: >>> On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, Alex Bennée wrote: >>> >>>> Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes: >>>> >>>>> On Sun, 4 Oct 2020, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> There is a number of contributors from this domain, >>>>>> add its own entry to the gitdm domain map. >>>>> >>>>> At some point the main branding will be Siemens; not sure how you want to >>>>> handle that. >>>> >>>> We've already done something similar with WaveComp who have rolled up >>>> the various mips and imgtec contributions into >>>> contrib/gitdm/group-map-wavecomp. >>>> >>>> It's really up to you and which corporate entity would like internet >>>> bragging points. The only Siemens contributor I could find is Jan Kiszka >>>> but he has contributed a fair amount ;-) >>> >>> Given that the Mentor branding is going away (and the "Mentor Graphics" >>> version largely has gone away, "Mentor, a Siemens Business" is what's >>> currently used as a Mentor brand), probably it makes sense to use Siemens >>> for both codesourcery.com and mentor.com addresses. >>> >> >> I think the key question is what this map is used for: Is it supposed to >> document the historic status, who was who at the time of contribution? >> Or is its purpose to help identifying the copyright holder of a >> contribution today? > > I don't know what others use them for but for me it was just an easy way > to get a survey of the companies and individuals involved over the last > year (2y, 3y, 5y... etc) of development.
My personal interest is seeing how the corporate/academic/hobbyist contributions are split, and how this evolves over time. Since there were entries for some companies, I added more, but this is not a requisite and we can drop the patches if considered not useful or giving headaches to the contributors. > The consolidation of > contributions isn't overly distorting IMO. The biggest user is probably > the end of year state of the nation surveys wanting to see what impact > various organisations are having on a project and consolidation just > helps push you up the table a little more. > > The biggest counter example we have at the moment is RedHat/IBM which > AFAICT is because the RedHat guys are treated as a separate business > unit with their own unique identity. > > Either way I don't think it's a major issue - hence it is up to the > hackers to make the choice. Totally. In this particular case, we could even keep "Codesourcery" group separate, similarly to RH/IBM. Regards, Phil.