Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:57:45 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 00:16 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > It is trivial for a human to look at a git log and see which changes > were just global cleanups and which changes were actual maintenance. > Apparently get_maintainers doesn't have that ability.
Do you have a useful, trivial or non-trivial algorithm to suggest or is that soft commenting? All I'll say is AI can be a surprisingly difficult field.
> Have seen some files with something like 5 years of changes without a > single commit by a maintainer and the only changes happening to it are > global cleanup changes.
Then likely there's no actual maintainer for that file.
> If get_maintainers would look at MAINTAINERS and validate or invalidate > that information by looking at git that would be useful.
Some entries in MAINTAINERS are outdated. Validating MAINTAINERS entries is probably best done once.
I suggest you try that concept out, see what you get, and make public the results.
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