From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54067) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrHw-0003fd-20 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:15:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrHv-0000Oc-4K for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:15:55 -0500 Received: from mail-vk0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c05::233]:35289) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSrHu-0000OY-SY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:15:55 -0500 Received: by mail-vk0-x233.google.com with SMTP id e6so101919404vkh.2 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:15:54 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56B8E6A8.8080506@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1454865729-5791-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <87h9hj7etf.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <56B8E3F5.3020108@redhat.com> <56B8E6A8.8080506@wwwdotorg.org> From: Peter Maydell Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 19:15:34 +0000 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add all-match entry for qemu-devel@ List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stephen Warren Cc: John Snow , Markus Armbruster , QEMU Developers On 8 February 2016 at 19:04, Stephen Warren wrote: > qemu's get_maintainers.pl must be doing something different to the Linux > kernel's version then, since IIRC the Linux kernel version always prints out > recent contributors irrespective of whether maintainers were found, rather > than as an alternative. I think if qemu's get_maintainers.pl acted in that > way it would solve the problem my patch caused? That difference from the kernel script's behaviour is deliberate, because the attempt to list recent contributors tends to list a whole lot of irrelevant people. So if there's a documented maintainer we prefer to just list them, and not all the random other people looking at the git logs drags up. Commit c6561586f0f8586 is where we changed the behaviour of get_maintainer.pl and the commit message has some rationale. thanks -- PMM