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

From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date: Aug 14, 2007, 19:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20070814193333.GI21089@ftp.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708141131140.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:40:09AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> A much *better* picture than some manually maintained thing, in fact, 
> because it tells you who really does the work, and which way patches go...
> 
> (Maybe you want to add a
> 
> 	grep -v '\(Linus Torvalds\)\|\(Andrew Morton\)'
> 
> to avoid seeing the normal chain too much, but hey, we probably want to 
> know too. Anyway - the script can certainly be tweaked, the point is 
> really just that the git tree _already_ contains the relevant 
> information).

FWIW, I suspect that we are looking at that from the wrong POV. If that's about "who ought to be Cc'd on the issues dealing with <list of pathnames>", why does it have to be tied to "who is maintainer for <pathname>"?

I'm not suggesting something like fs.ext2@kernel.org with something like majordomo allowing to add yourself to those, but something less extreme in that direction might be worth thinking about... Hell, even simple $ finger fs/minix/dir.c@cc.kernel.org with majordomo-like interface for adding yourself to such lists might solve most of those problems...