Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2002 03:45:56 +0100 |
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On January 30, 2002 10:56 pm, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote: > > 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,
Is that bad?
> 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.
One (and only one) step ahead of you. Please have a look at what we're doing here:
http://killeri.net/cgi-bin/alias/ezmlm-cgi
And yes, we're already thinking about Russell's concerns with spam. I think that issue is under control.
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