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

From: Ray Lee <ray@madrabbit.org>
Date: Aug 15, 2007, 15:31 UTC
Message-ID: <2c0942db0708150831k3bdf941u540b74b6b351920f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46C2C762.7080205@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

On 8/15/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >       #!/bin/sh
> >       git log --since=6.months.ago -- "$@" |
> >               grep -i '^    [-a-z]*by:.*@' |
> >               sort | uniq -c |
> >               sort -r -n | head
> >
> > and it gives you a rather good picture of who is involved with a
> > particular subdirectory or file.
>
> No, it doesn't.  The subscribers of <subsystem-devel@somewhere.org> are
> not listed in patch logs.

Then maybe they should be added into the patch logs. A CC: line isn't that big of a deal, and also shows who got notified.