Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:04:26 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:53 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:42:47AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > As the coverage of file patterns in MAINTAINERS is > > now pretty good, the --git results are less useful. > It's pretty good for subsystems and PC drivers but for embedded stuff it > is much more patchy and fairly unlikely to find someone who actually > knows about the specific hardware.
Especially not so good for ARM stuff.
It'd be great if the ARM/embedded folk would spend some effort improving the MAINTAINERS file pattern coverage.
I wrote some scripts to compare files and git commits to the individuals listed in MAINTAINERS as well as the "first author" of files added vs email addresses contained in the files. Some nominal MAINTAINERS haven't had commits or signoffs in quite awhile and could be likely be sifted out.
One possible improvement that get_maintainers could add is to [optionally] CC the author of the first commit when there's no listed maintainer.
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