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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: florian@mickler.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Stephen Hemminger (role:commit_signer)" <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	"Wolfram Sang (role:commit_signer)" <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:18:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100910101818.GF3068@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284113066.1783.69.camel@Joe-Laptop>

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:04:26AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

> It'd be great if the ARM/embedded folk would spend
> some effort improving the MAINTAINERS file pattern
> coverage.

Half the problem is that a lot of drivers aren't maintained by the
people who wrote them - for example, they wrote the driver to get a
board working but have no ongoing interest or can only really comment on
the one specific configuration used on their particular hardware.  This
means getting people to add MAINTAINERS entries is a bit more tricky
than it needs to be, even if they could offer useful review on changes.

> One possible improvement that get_maintainers could
> add is to [optionally] CC the author of the first
> commit when there's no listed maintainer.

That might be a nice option (though it will still give false positives).
Something based on percentage of the driver written rather than log
entry counts might also be interesting.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-10 10:18 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 [this message]
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
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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