From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755565Ab0IKAOA (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:14:00 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48147 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755038Ab0IKAN7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:13:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:13:50 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Joe Perches Cc: florian@mickler.org, Andrew Morton , "Stephen Hemminger (role:commit_signer)" , "Wolfram Sang (role:commit_signer)" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Message-ID: <20100911001350.GA11478@infradead.org> References: <1284111212-10659-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1284111767.1783.35.camel@Joe-Laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1284111767.1783.35.camel@Joe-Laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:42:47AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > I don't like reading annotated email names myself. > > As the coverage of file patterns in MAINTAINERS is > now pretty good, the --git results are less useful. > > I'd much rather turn off --git as a default, or change > get_maintainers to add git signers only when there's no > specifically listed maintainer for a particular file. Whoever made --git the default was on crack and this needs to be reverted ASAP. Just because people do global API changes it doesn't mean they need to be cced on every second pathc to the kernel tree. We already have a mailinglist for that purpose.