Re: [PATCH] [RFC] get_maintainer.pl: only list maintainers by default

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 01:23 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Joe Perches wrote:
> Reported-by and tested-by signatures in the git history commit /are/ in
> fact random WRT getting a list of handlers/ reviewers of a new patch.

Supporting stats please.

$ git log --since=1-year-ago | grep -Pi "(reported|tested)-by:.*@" \
  | cut -f2- -d":" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10
     77  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
     47  Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
     42  Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
     35  Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
     24  Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
     23  Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
     20  Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
     17  Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
     17  Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
     16  Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>

Look like mostly patch authors and maintainers to me.

Brian Cavagnolo isn't a patch author, but he's an active tester.

> It is more likely that reporters and testers cannot or/and do not want to
> do anything about such a patch.  Such a mailing is called UBE.

I doubt that's true of even half of the reporters and testers.

I also doubt such patch emails fit any reasonable definition
of UBE.

cheers, Joe