NFDI4Energy / NFDI4Energy/SMECS
Consolidate Contributors' emails using ".mailmap"
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- Dominant language
- Python
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- 13
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Description
Contributors using different email addresses appear multiple times in the contributors' table, creating confusion and making tracking difficult.
Proposed Solution: Use .mailmap to map multiple emails to a single canonical email.
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitmailmap
Contributor guide
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the Git mailmap documentation linked in the issue and inspect the repository history for contributors using multiple email addresses. Add a .mailmap that maps those addresses to canonical identities, then verify that the contributors' table no longer lists the same contributor multiple times.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- git
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100