From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752517Ab0IJKE3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:04:29 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1624 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751542Ab0IJKE1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:04:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default From: Joe Perches To: Mark Brown Cc: florian@mickler.org, Andrew Morton , "Stephen Hemminger (role:commit_signer)" , "Wolfram Sang (role:commit_signer)" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20100910095259.GC23903@sirena.org.uk> References: <1284111212-10659-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1284111767.1783.35.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20100910095259.GC23903@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:04:26 -0700 Message-ID: <1284113066.1783.69.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:53 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:42:47AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > As the coverage of file patterns in MAINTAINERS is > > now pretty good, the --git results are less useful. > It's pretty good for subsystems and PC drivers but for embedded stuff it > is much more patchy and fairly unlikely to find someone who actually > knows about the specific hardware. Especially not so good for ARM stuff. It'd be great if the ARM/embedded folk would spend some effort improving the MAINTAINERS file pattern coverage. I wrote some scripts to compare files and git commits to the individuals listed in MAINTAINERS as well as the "first author" of files added vs email addresses contained in the files. Some nominal MAINTAINERS haven't had commits or signoffs in quite awhile and could be likely be sifted out. One possible improvement that get_maintainers could add is to [optionally] CC the author of the first commit when there's no listed maintainer.