Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:18:18 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default |
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:04:26AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> It'd be great if the ARM/embedded folk would spend > some effort improving the MAINTAINERS file pattern > coverage.
Half the problem is that a lot of drivers aren't maintained by the people who wrote them - for example, they wrote the driver to get a board working but have no ongoing interest or can only really comment on the one specific configuration used on their particular hardware. This means getting people to add MAINTAINERS entries is a bit more tricky than it needs to be, even if they could offer useful review on changes.
> One possible improvement that get_maintainers could > add is to [optionally] CC the author of the first > commit when there's no listed maintainer.
That might be a nice option (though it will still give false positives). Something based on percentage of the driver written rather than log entry counts might also be interesting.
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