Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:44:08 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default |
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> > 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.
Within a time limit yes.
I'd guess a heuristic along the lines of
original committer && has committed in the past 6 months
might work rather well - and you could probably walk up the list of signed-off-by this way with the same rule and take a fair shot at a maintainer.
Trouble is for a lot of other stuff beyond that you need to hit the person whose signoff is on most of the submits to that file/subtree in the past six months but not count wide cross tree commits
That gets a bit harder to compute.
Seems like there is a social sciences or systems research project here to do some graph theory and modelling into "who really maintains the Linux kernel"
Alan
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