Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:04:57 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl |
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:09:08AM -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > On 8/12/07, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > I grew weary of looking up the appropriate > > maintainer email address(es) to CC: for a patch. > > > > I added flags to the MAINTAINERS file > > > > F: file pattern > > > > for each maintained block and a script to parse > > the modified blocks for maintainer and list > > email addresses. > > Why not parse git annotate or blame instead (other than it's freakin' > slow)? Using the repository history has the added benefit of telling > you a lot more fine-grained detail about who may want to know about > your patch.
The git tree simply does not contain this information.
Some of the obvious problems: - recently changed maintainership - new maintainer email address with the old one bouncing - git never contains maintainer mailing list addresses - you can't distinguish between a maintainer of a driver and people only writing or forwarding patches for a driver
cu Adrian
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