[PATCH v2 0/2] get_maintainer: add patch-only keyword matching

From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>,
	geert@linux-m68k.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	workflows@vger.kernel.org, mario.limonciello@amd.com,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] get_maintainer: add patch-only keyword matching
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 04:23:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230928-get_maintainer_add_d-v2-0-8acb3f394571@google.com> (raw)

This series aims to add "D:" which behaves exactly the same as "K:" but
works only on patch files.

The goal of this is to reduce noise when folks use get_maintainer on
tree files as opposed to patches. "D:" should help maintainers reduce
noise in their inboxes, especially when matching omnipresent
keywords like [1]. In the event of [1] Kees would be to/cc'd from folks
running get_maintainer on _any_ file containing "__counted_by". The
number of these files is rising and I fear for his inbox as his goal, as
I understand it, is to simply monitor the introduction of new
__counted_by annotations to ensure accurate semantics.

Joe mentioned in v1 that perhaps K: should be reworked to only consider
patch files. I wonder, though, if folks are intentionally using the
current behavior of K: and thus would be peeved from a change there. I
see this series as, at the very least, a gentle migration in behavior
which is purely opt-in and at some point could eagerly be merged with
K:.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230925172037.work.853-kees@kernel.org/

Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
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Changes in v2:
- remove bits about non-patch usage being bad (thanks Greg, Kees, et al.)
- remove formatting pass (thanks Joe) (but seriously the formatting is
  bad, is there opportunity to get a formatting pass in here at some
  point?)
- add some migration from K to D (thanks Kees, Nick)
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927-get_maintainer_add_d-v1-0-28c207229e72@google.com

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Justin Stitt (2):
      get_maintainer: add patch-only keyword-matching
      MAINTAINERS: migrate some K to D

 MAINTAINERS               | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
 scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 6465e260f48790807eef06b583b38ca9789b6072
change-id: 20230926-get_maintainer_add_d-07424a814e72

Best regards,
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Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>