Re: [PATCH] Maintainers: switch to my Arm email address

["Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 15:33, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/05/20 13:30, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:23:46 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> I no longer work for Linaro (and haven't for a while) so in anticipation
> >> of losing access to my @linaro.org mailbox, let's switch to the ARM one
> >> for my Tiancore contributions and maintainerships. Update the .mailmap
> >> at the same time so the tooling can rewrite history where needed.
> >
> > I have no issue either way, but I also don't think a proper decision
> > was made last time around the .mailmap topic came up as to whether it
> > was intended to span organisation changes.
>
> We said that stewards wouldn't have the power to approve such, but the
> subject contributors would.
>
> > At present it does not in this project, and I would prefer for such a
> > change to happen after an explicit policy decision rather than by
> > accident.
> >
> > In the meantime, for the Maintainers.txt changes:
> > Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
>
> I'm fine with both keeping and dropping the .mailmap hunk, as it is
> being proposed by Ard.
>
> So either way:
>
> Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
>

Thanks all

Given the fact that the mailmap is only used when explicitly asked for
it, adding the entry is not going to make it more likely that
unsuspecting contributors will end up using my @arm.com email address
after looking at my contributions in the Git history. So I dropped the
mailmap hunk and pushed this to edk2 master.