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    SubjectRe: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
    On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote:

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    > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Russell King wrote:
    > > There's one problem with that though - if someone maintains many files,
    > > and his email address changes, you end up with a large patch changing all
    > > those email addresses in every file.
    >
    > Why not have real fun and give out e-mail@vger.kernel.org (or @kernel.org)
    > to people who make it into MAINTAINERS then? Of course, someone would
    > have to maintain the accounts... ;)

    Just as a talking point, it should be possible to have a daemon scan mail
    the lkml for [PATCH] and read the filenames from the patch itself, and do
    a file to maintainer lookup followed by a mail. Obviously it would have to
    have a human for some cases, but that's not all that bad, at least the
    patch program could assign a number and post a list of patches to lkml on
    a regular basis.

    The hard part is the file to maintainer map, so the program can pick the
    best maintainer, and possibly on a regular (daily) basis a single list of
    patches to other maintainers: "this patch was sent to XXX bacause most of
    the files are hers,but some are yours so you might want to check." And of
    course XXX would be told that the patch changed other's files as well.

    All patches would be given a number for discussion, after eyeball of the
    first 20 patches I saw, I guess that 60-80% could unambiguously go to the
    correct maintainer.

    I realize this is less complex and wonderful than the schemes proposed,
    therefore it might easily actually happen... and it takes no effort except
    reading the mail, if the maintainer doesn't care to use the notification
    s/he can ignore it, at least the submitter can be sure it was remailed and
    to whom.

    --
    bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
    CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
    Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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