Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2007, 17:00 UTC
Message-ID: <1187110824.32555.76.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <46C1CFFE.4000001@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 17:53 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:

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> It isn't about MODULE_FOO() tags, it is about tagging /source/ files 
> to help with putting CCs on patch submissals.
> If we want to link source file foo.c and the 
> MAINTAINERS information, we have 3 options:
> 1. MAINTAINERS --> foo.c
> 2. foo.c --> MAINTAINERS
> 3. foo.c <--> some 3rd file <--> MAINTAINERS

I added git@vger.kernel.org and Junio Hamano

Another possibility is improving git to allow some sort of "declaration of interest" in bits of projects.

That would allow options like:

o  git-format-patch to include CCs
o  git-commit and git-branch to notify or
     take some other action

etc...

It's generic, applies to multiple projects, etc.

I don't care which mechanism is used, I just want to be able to CC appropriate people and lists on changes to their areas of interest without wasting time searching all over the place per file changed.

The LK MAINTAINERS file is weakly specified, but I'm not a git-geek, nor do I want to be one, so MAINTAINERS was the file I could easiest change with minimal impact to LK sources.

The get_maintainer script is trivial, I'm not wedded to it at all.