Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:45:06 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] MAINTAINERS - add script and patterns |
| |
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:24:08 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Will that be OK? Will the tool still work OK is MAITNAINERS is a bit > > wrong? > > More or less. By default it will still use git > "-by:" signers. More pattern coverage is better. > > > Is the tool capable of detecting misformatted MAINTAINERS entries? If > > so, that would help long-term maintenance a lot. > > Not really. > > The MAINTAINERS file format is weakly specified. > > I have a separate script that looks for patterns > that have no file matches and sections that have > no patterns. > > Any suggestions?
Don't worry about it for now. Have a think about it later, as MAINTAINERS maintainer ;)
> btw: I did not do any patterns for ARM or PowerPC. > Of course those could be added in the future. > > > I never have seen [patch 2/8] because the linux-foundation mail server > > thinks it's spam. > > Actually, if the mail server is to be believed, the > MAINTAINERS file already contains a SPAM URI and > could be rejected if you sent it to yourself as-is. > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 15:22 -0800, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: > > ----- The following addresses... > > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > ... while talking to smtp1.linux-foundation.org.: > > >>> DATA > > <<< 451 4.3.2 Please try again later > > ... while talking to smtp2.linux-foundation.org.: > > >>> DATA > > <<< 554 5.7.1 Email body contains Spam URI > > 554 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>... Service unavailable > > > So if all the above looks OK then please resend > > everything (yet again) to akpm@kernel.org. > > Do you want me to wait for RC1 when most of the > MAINTAINERS changes should be done or do you want > it now?
At -rc1 please. Let's try it out and if it looks good I'll see if I can fool Linus into taking it for -rc2, when things are a bit quieter.
| |