Re: Debian WWW people page
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:15:25PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote:
>
> I have a suggestion. Why not this be done on the basis of the email id.
> For example, if in the above case, the listing was done based on email,
> then, all my packages would have been listed in one place.
>
Take a look at the script to see what is done. I had what I thought was
a nice scheme that would catch most developers (I think email or fully
matching name was the starting point). There ended up being a bunch of
special cases to deal with. With time the number of special cases has
grown. Lately, we have simply been adding an if statement for each
person who doesn't fit the mold.
This is something that would be so easy if Debian forced developers to
use their name and address consistently.
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James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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