Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default | From | Javier Martinez Canillas <> | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:08:12 +0900 |
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Hello Laura,
Thanks a lot for your feedback.
On 10/27/2015 08:00 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: > On 10/26/2015 03:11 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> The get_maintainer.pl script could be used to get a list of people that >> has to be in the copy list when posting patches for a given file but it >> defaults to git fallback so the list returned isn't really relevant and >> submitters are posting patches to random developers that just happened >> to touch that file in the past. >> >> Disable git fallback so get_maintainer.pl only returns the information >> that is in MAINTAINERS by default. >> >> Suggested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> >> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> >> >> --- >> Hello, >> >> This patch was suggested by Wolfram on this thread [0] but it is >> something I thought before because I've seen people complaining >> on a regular basis about being cc'ed in random patches and there >> are tools like patman [1] that rely on get_maintainers.pl to post >> the patches. >> >> [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/26/444 >> [1]: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=tools/patman/README >> >> Best regards, >> Javier >> > > We might need to do a sweep of files to make sure more of them are > listed in the maintainers file, else by default they only show LKML. > As an example, a bunch of files in lib are only showing LKML. > Defaulting to only sending to LKML may be swinging too far in the wrong > direction for reducing inbox size. >
You are correct, disabling git fallback could be a too radical solution for now until the MAINTAINERS file is more complete.
I'll do some auditing to the files in the source tree and see if I can come with a patch series that improves the state of MAINTAINERS before disabling this option by default.
Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America
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