From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752328Ab0IJKrE (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:47:04 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1630 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751798Ab0IJKrD (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:47:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default From: Joe Perches To: Florian Mickler Cc: Mark Brown , Andrew Morton , Stephen Hemminger , Wolfram Sang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20100910122213.30caee89@schatten.dmk.lab> References: <1284111212-10659-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1284111767.1783.35.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20100910095259.GC23903@sirena.org.uk> <1284113066.1783.69.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20100910122213.30caee89@schatten.dmk.lab> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:47:01 -0700 Message-ID: <1284115621.1783.142.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 12:22 +0200, Florian Mickler wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:04:26 -0700 > Joe Perches wrote: > > One possible improvement that get_maintainers could > > add is to [optionally] CC the author of the first > > commit when there's no listed maintainer. > I don't think the first commit has any special significance > in general. It does depend on the age of the first commit. The author of the first commit is most frequently the primary file author and also a current maintainer or a still significantly interested party.