Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 08:21 +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, joe@perches.com wrote:
> > On 2015-10-26 19:47, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > >What if we have a git_fallback "auto" mode which only falls back to
> > >using git if there is no entry in the MAINTAINERS file?  That might
> > >address the concern which Laura raised, without blocking this
> > >change until the MAINTAINERS file is fully populated.
> > 
> > That's what happens already right now.
> 
> I think it can be done better.
> 
> FYI, this patch came about because I keep complaining about submitters
> sending me patches I really shouldn't have to care about.

Then you should add your name to the .get_maintainer.ignore file.

If you do, you'll only get listed by get_maintainer for files where
you have a specific entry in MAINTAINERS.

> Here is the most recent offending command output:
> 
>   $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
>   Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> (maintainer:I2C SUBSYSTEM,commit_signer:26/26=100%,authored:3/26=12%,removed_lines:3/11=27%)
>   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> (commit_signer:3/26=12%)
>   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> (commit_signer:3/26=12%,authored:3/26=12%,removed_lines:2/11=18%)
>   David Box <david.e.box@linux.intel.com> (commit_signer:3/26=12%,added_lines:11/146=8%)
>   Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> (commit_signer:2/26=8%)
>   Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> (authored:2/26=8%,removed_lines:2/11=18%)
>   Neelesh Gupta <neelegup@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (added_lines:11/146=8%)
>   James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> (added_lines:10/146=7%)
>   Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com> (added_lines:10/146=7%)
>   Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com> (added_lines:10/146=7%)
>   Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@chromium.org> (removed_lines:2/11=18%)
>   Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org> (removed_lines:1/11=9%)
>   linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org (open list:I2C SUBSYSTEM)
>   linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
> 
> Anyone south of Wolfram and north of the I2C ML is unlikely to care.
> 
> Please find a way to make this better.  For the sake of our sanity.

Your sanity must be pretty darn fragile.