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From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
To: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Tim \(Xen.org\)" <tim@xen.org>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] Allow get_maintainer.pl / add_maintainers.pl scripts to be called outside of xen.git
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:28:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b87bf90-2e11-298f-201d-a185bd92e74a@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16EC776-8DAC-439A-9FF9-E5DF1F18206B@citrix.com>



On 16/08/2019 13:17, Lars Kurth wrote:
> On 16/08/2019, 11:01, "Julien Grall" <julien.grall@arm.com> wrote:
>       From my understanding, any use on mini-os.git & co will be legitimate. However,
>      we still print the WARNING in those cases.
>      
>      Usually WARNING means something needs attention. As most of the users will
>      likely copy/paste from the wiki, we are going to have report asking why the
>      WARNING is there.
>      
>      I think it would make sense to try to downgrade the message a bit when possible.
>      For instance, we could check if the section "THE REST" is present in the file
>      MAINTAINERS. If not, this is likely not a file we are able to support.
>      
> I thought about this and it is not as easy as it seems, because the script only parses
> M: ... &c lines

The script is able to parse the section name. See get_maintainer_role().

Although, I am not sure how early the function can get called.

But...

> 
> Maybe the best way to address this would be to include some identifier into the
> MAINTAINERS file (after the header with all the definitions).
> 
> FORMAT: xen-project-maintainers <version>
> (note that this is not currently picked up by the tool)
> 
> Or
> 
> V: xen-project-maintainers <version>
> (note that this would be picked up by the tool)

Any of these solutions are also a potential alternative.

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall

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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 [this message]
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

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