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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:57:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1284364665.22185.116.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hbhucdv5.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

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Some entries in MAINTAINERS are outdated.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.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10  9:33 [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default florian
2010-09-10  9:42 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10  9:46   ` Wolfram Sang
2010-09-10  9:53   ` Mark Brown
2010-09-10 10:04     ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10 10:18       ` Mark Brown
2010-09-10 10:47         ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10 11:07           ` Mark Brown
2010-09-11  0:22           ` [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: Add --git-blame --rolestats "Authored lines" information Joe Perches
2010-09-11  9:38             ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11  9:52               ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 10:02                 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11 10:22                   ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 19:22                   ` [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Add and describe scripts/get_maintainer.pl Joe Perches
2010-09-11 19:34                     ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11 19:43                     ` [PATCH V2] " Joe Perches
2010-09-12 16:18                       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 11:44         ` [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Alan Cox
2010-09-10 10:22       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 10:47         ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 21:22     ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10 10:30   ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 11:04     ` Mark Brown
2010-09-10 11:15       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 21:04     ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-10 21:39       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 21:44       ` Joe Perches
2010-09-13  4:01     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-09-13  5:21       ` [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Look for .get_maintainer.conf in lk, then $HOME then scripts Joe Perches
2010-09-13  6:13         ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-13 13:21         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-09-10 11:11   ` [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 15:12     ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11  9:34       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11  0:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-11  0:31     ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11  0:45       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-11  0:56         ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11  9:28         ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-13  7:16           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-13  7:57             ` Joe Perches [this message]
2010-09-13  8:54               ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-14 17:19                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-14 17:46                   ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-15  3:28                     ` Joe Perches
2010-09-15  4:34                       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-15  4:45                         ` Joe Perches
2010-09-15 12:49                           ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-14 23:15                   ` Joe Perches
2010-09-13  9:01             ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-14 17:24               ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-26 18:52 ` RFC: " Joe Perches
2010-09-27 14:57   ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-27 15:44     ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-27 17:00       ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-27 18:21         ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-27 19:26           ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-27 20:08             ` Joe Perches
2010-09-27 20:47               ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-27 21:16                 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-28  4:22                   ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-28  4:37                   ` Mark Brown

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