This PR adds a top-level mapping file allowing to normalize commits from the same contributor and associate all commits to a canonical "First Name Last Name " author line.
The following rules are used for the construction of the .mailmap file:
for all contributors who are employees of the University or Dundee, Glencoe Software, the @dundee.ac.uk, or @glencoesoftware.com email address is used as the canonical email address
for all contributors with an executed CLA, the real name and email address sent via the CLA is used as the canonical address
This PR adds a top-level mapping file allowing to normalize commits from the same contributor and associate all commits to a canonical "First Name Last Name" author line.
The following rules are used for the construction of the .mailmap file:
@dundee.ac.uk
, or@glencoesoftware.com
email address is used as the canonical email addressThe .mailmap is constructed according to the official documentation using one of the two forms:
for mapping different email addresses and
for mapping different real names.
The unique list of commit authors can be generated and reviewing using
git shortlog -se
See also https://github.com/ome/openmicroscopy/pull/6349, https://github.com/ome/bioformats/pull/4026, https://github.com/ome/omero-web/pull/482 and https://github.com/ome/omero-py/pull/375