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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 20:32 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 08:38 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 11:14 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > I first check
> > > the MAINTAINERS file. If the subsystem I'm working on exists there, I
> > > only email those that are listed there, including any mailing lists that
> > > are mentioned (as well as LKML). If it's not listed, I then do a git log
> > > and see who does the most sign offs to changes there, and to what kind
> > > of changes. I usually ignore the trivial stuff.
> > 
> > Funny because that's what the script does too.
> > 
> 
> Really? It ignores the trivial stuff and only adds people that seem to
> actually do real work on the file?

Fundamentally, yes.
It's not as good as even a semi-skilled person of course.

> If that's the case, I doubt that it would have caused the huge Cc list
> that Daniel sent out.

Multiple files per patch, large recipient lists.

I generally use --no-git and --nogit-fallback