Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:14:46 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] MAINTAINERS - add script and patterns |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:19:21 -0700 > Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > >> Add a script to find the maintainer of an individual >> file or files in a patch and adds additional patterns >> to MAINTAINERS. >> >> Other information from MAINTAINERS sections can >> also be generated by file or patch. >> >> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> > > gack, this isn't working out very well. > > Is everyone OK with the concept and execution? We think this is ready > and desirable to merge?
I'm for it.
> I think I'd like this to sit in my tree for a while so I can have a > play with it - I'm a major customer! > > The two problematic patches are the ones which make largish changes to > the MAINTAINERS file, yes? One way to handle those is as a two-pass > thing: I merge and maintain it as much as I can, but as people make > additional changes and as the fixups get out of hand, the patch will > end up only being 90% complete. So we'll need to do a later second > pass to fix up the stragglers. > > Will that be OK? Will the tool still work OK is MAITNAINERS is a bit > wrong? > > Is the tool capable of detecting misformatted MAINTAINERS entries? If > so, that would help long-term maintenance a lot. > > I never have seen [patch 2/8] because the linux-foundation mail server > thinks it's spam. So if all the above looks OK then please resend > everything (yet again) to akpm@kernel.org. If/when the time comes I'll > send it on to torvalds@kernel.org. If that person is redirecting his > kernel.org email to linux-foundation.org then he presumably still > won't receive it. We'll work it out at that time ;)
-- ~Randy
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