Alright.  Thanks for pointing me at it.  I must have scrolled right past
that "authors.txt", assuming that it was the AUTHORS file of the repository.

My suggestion for added clarity would be:
- create an AUTHORS file with your names in it
- rename authors.txt to apertium_svn_authors.txt or something like that

The [email protected] addresses do indeed make more sense than
pure dummy addresses, since they are at least theoretically valid
addresses of the respective authors.

Regards
Benedikt

Am 06.02.2018 um 03:38 schrieb Sushain Cherivirala:
> Hi Benedikt,
> 
> Thank you for your reply. You raise a good question regarding the
> preservation
> of emails in a transition to Git.
> 
> Fortunately, in managing the Apertium packages for various platforms,
> Tino has also
> has put together a correspondence between SVN users and emails. The import
> scripts that I have written use this correspondence. The current version
> can be
> found here:
> https://github.com/sushain97/apertium-on-github/blob/master/authors.txt
> <https://github.com/sushain97/apertium-on-github/blob/master/authors.txt>.
> 
> Here is some documentation for the scripts I mention:
> https://github.com/sushain97/apertium-on-github#scripts
> <https://github.com/sushain97/apertium-on-github#scripts>.
> 
> If your proper email is missing, you could email Tino and I. If your
> email in the file
> does not correspond to the email you use from GitHub, it can be changed.
> However, it might be easiest to just add the email to your GitHub
> account (you
> can ensure that it is private). Of course, a repo's authors can always
> be modified 
> after the fact with a re-import or filter-branch operation if necessary.
> 
> I will leave you with an example of what the import script does when used on
> apertium-cat: 
> https://github.com/mock-apertium/apertium-cat/graphs/contributors
> <https://github.com/mock-apertium/apertium-cat/graphs/contributors>.
> 
> I am happy to answer any further questions.
> 
> --
> Sushain K. Cherivirala
> 
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 5:06 AM, Benedikt Freisen <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     One not so unimportant issue that I do not see mentioned anywhere is
>     E-mail addresses.
>     While svn only maintains a simple user name, git requires user name +
>     E-mail address.  Tools like git-svn will only create a dummy address
>     (user@repository-hash or something like that).
> 
>     When reactos moved to github in October, a list of svn committer names
>     plus full (real) names and E-mail addresses was compiled and supplied to
>     the conversion tool, with more meaningful dummy addresses for previous
>     committers without a known valid E-mail address.
>     Apertium could use something like
>     [email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]> in that case.
> 
>     My suggestion is therefore to scan all AUTHORS files for E-mail
>     addresses and names corresponding to the respective committers.
>     This has the additional benefit, that if those authors have a github
>     account and use the same name+address combination with their github
>     repositories, github will automatically recognize their commits as
>     theirs.
> 
>     Regards
>     Benedikt
> 
>     Am 04.02.2018 um 01:03 schrieb Shardul Chiplunkar:
>     > To the President and members of the PMC and Apertium contributors,
>     >
>     > There is a new proposal to the PMC to move Apertium to Github:
>     >
>     http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/PMC_proposals/Move_Apertium_to_Github
>     <http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/PMC_proposals/Move_Apertium_to_Github>
>     >
>     > Both previous proposals of a similar topic had shortcomings which this
>     > proposal tries to address.
>     >
>     > If you are not a member of the PMC but would like to express your
>     > support for this proposal, please add your name to the "Non-PMC
>     > signatories" section at the bottom of the page.
>     >
>     > Thank you,
>     > Shardul C.
>     >
>     >
>     >
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