Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add all-match entry for qemu-devel@

[Peter Maydell]

On 8 February 2016 at 19:04, Stephen Warren <address@hidden> wrote:
> qemu's get_maintainers.pl must be doing something different to the Linux
> kernel's version then, since IIRC the Linux kernel version always prints out
> recent contributors irrespective of whether maintainers were found, rather
> than as an alternative. I think if qemu's get_maintainers.pl acted in that
> way it would solve the problem my patch caused?

That difference from the kernel script's behaviour is deliberate, because
the attempt to list recent contributors tends to list a whole lot of
irrelevant people. So if there's a documented maintainer we prefer to
just list them, and not all the random other people looking at the git
logs drags up. Commit c6561586f0f8586 is where we changed the behaviour
of get_maintainer.pl and the commit message has some rationale.

thanks
-- PMM