Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFC] get_maintainer.pl: only list maintainers by default | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sat, 08 May 2010 16:51:06 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 01:23 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Joe Perches wrote: > Reported-by and tested-by signatures in the git history commit /are/ in > fact random WRT getting a list of handlers/ reviewers of a new patch.
Supporting stats please.
$ git log --since=1-year-ago | grep -Pi "(reported|tested)-by:.*@" \ | cut -f2- -d":" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10 77 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 47 Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> 42 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> 35 Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> 24 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> 23 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> 20 Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com> 17 Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> 17 Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> 16 Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Look like mostly patch authors and maintainers to me.
Brian Cavagnolo isn't a patch author, but he's an active tester.
> It is more likely that reporters and testers cannot or/and do not want to > do anything about such a patch. Such a mailing is called UBE.
I doubt that's true of even half of the reporters and testers.
I also doubt such patch emails fit any reasonable definition of UBE.
cheers, Joe
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