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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 14, 2007, 18:40 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708141131140.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <1187116082.32555.122.camel@localhost>

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Joe Perches wrote:

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> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:03 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> > "git info --maintainer drivers/ide/ide-cd.c" or some such would say "Alan 
> > Cox <alan@...>".
> 
> Perhaps maintainer(s), approver(s), listener(s)?
> 
> I think something like this should be a git-goal.
> What do the git-wranglers think?

The thing is, if you have git, you can basically already do this.

Do a script like this:

	#!/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.

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).

		Linus