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[106.167.171.201]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p6-20020a170902780600b0015e8d4eb26esm5869326pll.184.2022.10.02.18.17.22 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 02 Oct 2022 18:17:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <92ef6be6-dc99-555d-8263-77484b7d0f12@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 10:17:19 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation/process: Add text to indicate supporters should be mailed Content-Language: en-US To: Joe Perches Cc: corbet@lwn.net, konstantin@linuxfoundation.org, Theodore Ts'o , Bryan O'Donoghue , Krzysztof Kozlowski , linux@leemhuis.info, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20220930064629.329514-2-bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org> <21f8d79a-0ad4-b28b-15d8-f4be0cfd9730@gmail.com> <70759d05-2646-57e5-0b87-3a196488f622@linaro.org> From: Akira Yokosawa In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 16:55:05 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2022-10-03 at 08:04 +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: >> Hello Joe, >> >> Thank you for chiming in. >> >> On 2022/10/03 0:49, Joe Perches wrote: >>> On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 09:58 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: >>>> The easiest to achieve it is to run with --no-git-fallback and CC entire >>>> output. However it does not mean submitter must run with >>>> --no-git-fallback. It is only for this generic rule - CC entire output >>>> of get_maintainers.pl. >>>> >>>> If you add such rule "CC entire output of get_maintainers.pl" and do not >>>> mention no-git-fallback, some folks will think they need to CC all these >>>> people who made one commit to your file... >>> >>> false. >>> >>> git-fallback is _not_ used when there is a listed maintainer for a >>> specific file. >>> >>> If there is a use of git-fallback, it's because there is _no_ >>> specified maintainer for a specific file. >>> >>> --git-fallback => use git when no exact MAINTAINERS pattern (default: 1) >>> >>> i.e.: It's not "your file" if you don't maintain it. >> >> Joe, I sometimes see unexpected output WRT --git-fallback. >> >> Example: >> >> $ ./get_maintainer.pl -f Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst >> Jonathan Corbet (maintainer:DOCUMENTATION,commit_signer:1/1=100%) >> <-- ??? >> Lukas Bulwahn (commit_signer:1/1=100%,authored:1/1=100%,added_lines:2/2=100%,removed_lines:2/2=100%) >> <-- ??? >> linux-doc@vger.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION) >> >> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list) >> >> As you see, --git-fallback is used in this case. Why? >> It looks strange to me as Jon is listed as a "maintainer". >> >> Having "F: Documentation/" in MAINTAINERS does not suffice? > > No. It's not an exact pattern match as the files below the > top level of Documentation are not specifically matched by > "F: Documentation/". For me, calling this is "not an exact pattern match" sounds inconsistent with the explanation (quoted below) near the top of MAINTAINERS: F: *Files* and directories wildcard patterns. A trailing slash includes all files and subdirectory files. What am I missing? Does this explanation needs update? Regards, Akira > [...]