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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback
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Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback |
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Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:19:52 +0100 |
On 20 October 2014 15:15, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 20 October 2014 10:19, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Contributors rely on this script to find maintainers to copy. The
>> > script falls back to git when no exact MAINTAINERS pattern matches.
>> > When that happens, recent contributors get copied, which tends not be
>> > particularly useful. Some contributors find it even annoying.
>> >
>> > Flip the default to "don't fall back to git". Use --git-fallback to
>> > ask it to fall back to git.
>> Good idea.
> What do you want to happen in this case?
It should mail the people who are actually maintainers,
not anybody who happened to touch the code in the last
year.
> I'm yet to see contributors who are annoyed but we
> can always blacklist specific people.
At the moment I just don't use get_maintainers.pl at
all because I tried it a few times and it just cc'd
a bunch of irrelevant people...
I suspect anybody using it at the moment is either
using the --no-git-fallback flag or trimming the
cc list a lot.
thanks
-- PMM
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Markus Armbruster, 2014/10/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Don Slutz, 2014/10/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Peter Maydell, 2014/10/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/10/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Markus Armbruster, 2014/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Markus Armbruster, 2014/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Markus Armbruster, 2014/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback, Markus Armbruster, 2014/10/22