Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Add a git-publish configuration file

[Fam Zheng]

On Wed, 02/14 15:08, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 13/02/2018 19:09, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > Why is a custom entry needed for block here (and other things
> > below).   Won't running get_maintainer.pl already correctly
> > report when a patch needs cc'ing to address@hidden
> > based on MAINTAINER rules ?
> 
> Sometimes you want to CC block people even on a non-block patch, for
> example if you want their opinion about using the API.
> 
> We should probably add at least arm and ppc profiles, too.
> 
> > --nogit --nogit-fallback
> 
> QEMU's getmaintainer (unlike the Linux version!) already tries to avoid
> falling back to git if a maintainer is listed.  Are these options necessary?
> 

Falling back to git is usually more noisy than useful even when a maintainer is
not listed, in my past experience. That's why I don't use it myself and propose
such here. But I'm open to different opinions.

Fam