Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:34:51 +0300 | From | Dan Aloni <> | Subject | [RFC] automatic CC generation for patch submission |
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Hello,
I'd like to present a suggestion for automatic generation of carbon copy fields in the E-Mails of posted patches.
Basically, instead of manually figuring out who to add to CC when sending a patch to LKML by looking at MAINTAINERS, a script can look at '.maintainers' files spread across the source tree and automatically generate a proper list of CCs for a patch.
To illustrate: If a patch affects a file under drivers/net/e1000, the CC script will look at these files
drivers/net/e1000/.maintainers drivers/net/.maintainers drivers/.maintainers .maintainers
... to gather up the mailing list addresses or an individual maintainer inbox address.
A posssible format for this file could be a newline-separated list of:
[filename wildcard]:e-mail
For example, drivers/scsi/.maintainers would contain:
libiscsi.*:open-iscsi@googlegroups.com scsi_*.c:scsi-devel@vger.kernel.org
etc...
Or, instead (or in addition) of having a '.maintainers' file each directory we can modify source files by adding parsable '/* MAINTAINER: name@domain */' comments.
Some extensions to the popular E-Mail clients might be needed here. Also, a bot reading LKML would automatically send links about posted patches to the other mailing lists whenever someone forgets to add a CC.
Any comments?
-- Dan Aloni XIV LTD, http://www.xivstorage.com da-x (at) monatomic.org, dan (at) xiv.co.il - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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