Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:40:09 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl |
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:03 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > > "git info --maintainer drivers/ide/ide-cd.c" or some such would say "Alan > > Cox <alan@...>". > > Perhaps maintainer(s), approver(s), listener(s)? > > I think something like this should be a git-goal. > What do the git-wranglers think?
The thing is, if you have git, you can basically already do this.
Do a script like this:
#!/bin/sh git log --since=6.months.ago -- "$@" | grep -i '^ [-a-z]*by:.*@' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n | head and it gives you a rather good picture of who is involved with a particular subdirectory or file.
A much *better* picture than some manually maintained thing, in fact, because it tells you who really does the work, and which way patches go...
(Maybe you want to add a
grep -v '\(Linus Torvalds\)\|\(Andrew Morton\)' to avoid seeing the normal chain too much, but hey, we probably want to know too. Anyway - the script can certainly be tweaked, the point is really just that the git tree _already_ contains the relevant information).
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