From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com>,
Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
"Tim \(Xen.org\)" <tim@xen.org>,
George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@citrix.com>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
'Jan Beulich' <jbeulich@suse.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] Allow get_maintainer.pl / add_maintainers.pl scripts to be called outside of xen.git
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 18:13:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23909.25793.163362.478748@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1908231615190.26226@sstabellini-ThinkPad-T480s>
Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] Allow get_maintainer.pl / add_maintainers.pl scripts to be called outside of xen.git"):
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > Hi all. I would like to get this resolved and was looking for
> > opinions. The thread is about enabling usage of get_maintainer.pl /
> > add_maintainers.pl on sister repositories for xen.git, such as
> > xtf.git, osstest.git, mini-os.git, ... to have a consistent tools story
> > and make patch submission for newcomers easier. We have
> > several options:
> >
> > 1) Warn if the tools are applied outside the Xen tree
> > Julian felt this is likely confusing
> >
> > 2) Do not warn under some conditions
> > 2.1) Use THE REST as identifier to avoid the warning
> > Cons: Warning would disappear because Linux and QEMU also have THE REST
> > This may not be an issue as both MAINTAINERS files follow the same format
> > However, there may be subtle differences in behaviour for unusual options
> > for the get_maintainer.pl script as we have not been tracking all changes
> >
> > 2.2) Introduce a unique identifier in MAINTAINERS
> > This would imply introducing a unique identifier for xen related
> > MAINTAINER files
> > Pros: More accurate
> > Cons: Pollutes file format
I think the "Con" for 2.2 is very minor indeed.
> Any of these options are OK, really. Aside from the other subprojects, I
> think one interesting case to consider is when a user calls
> get_maintainer.pl on tools/qemu-xen-dir, which should return a warning
> or error because that's QEMU, not Xen.
>
> So, I think it would be best to go with 2.2) introducing a new tag to
> distinguish the Xen MAINTAINERS file from the QEMU MAINTAINERS file, so
> that we can properly return a warning for tools/qemu-xen-dir, but at the
> same time it could work fine for mini-os.git.
I agree that 2.2 is the best answer. I would be content with any of
the above options.
Ian.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-15 17:22 [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] Allow get_maintainer.pl / add_maintainers.pl scripts to be called outside of xen.git Lars Kurth
2019-08-16 10:00 ` Julien Grall
2019-08-16 12:17 ` Lars Kurth
2019-08-16 13:28 ` Julien Grall
2019-08-16 13:43 ` Lars Kurth
2019-08-23 16:34 ` Lars Kurth
2019-08-24 1:16 ` Stefano Stabellini
2019-08-27 17:13 ` Ian Jackson [this message]
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