From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761500AbZC3Uzx (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:55:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756358AbZC3Uzn (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:55:43 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50726 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756067AbZC3Uzn (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:55:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:53:15 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Joe Perches Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] MAINTAINERS - add script and patterns Message-Id: <20090330135315.a05854da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1237331969-28565-1-git-send-email-joe@perches.com> References: <1237331969-28565-1-git-send-email-joe@perches.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:19:21 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > Add a script to find the maintainer of an individual > file or files in a patch and adds additional patterns > to MAINTAINERS. > > Other information from MAINTAINERS sections can > also be generated by file or patch. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches gack, this isn't working out very well. Is everyone OK with the concept and execution? We think this is ready and desirable to merge? I think I'd like this to sit in my tree for a while so I can have a play with it - I'm a major customer! The two problematic patches are the ones which make largish changes to the MAINTAINERS file, yes? One way to handle those is as a two-pass thing: I merge and maintain it as much as I can, but as people make additional changes and as the fixups get out of hand, the patch will end up only being 90% complete. So we'll need to do a later second pass to fix up the stragglers. Will that be OK? Will the tool still work OK is MAITNAINERS is a bit wrong? Is the tool capable of detecting misformatted MAINTAINERS entries? If so, that would help long-term maintenance a lot. I never have seen [patch 2/8] because the linux-foundation mail server thinks it's spam. So if all the above looks OK then please resend everything (yet again) to akpm@kernel.org. If/when the time comes I'll send it on to torvalds@kernel.org. If that person is redirecting his kernel.org email to linux-foundation.org then he presumably still won't receive it. We'll work it out at that time ;) Thanks.