From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756481AbZCaVrs (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:47:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761646AbZCaVrd (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:47:33 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60562 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757419AbZCaVrc (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:47:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:45:06 -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: <20090331144506.3737e832.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1238534648.9715.306.camel@localhost> References: <1237331969-28565-1-git-send-email-joe@perches.com> <20090330135315.a05854da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1238534648.9715.306.camel@localhost> 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, 31 Mar 2009 14:24:08 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Will that be OK? Will the tool still work OK is MAITNAINERS is a bit > > wrong? > > More or less. By default it will still use git > "-by:" signers. More pattern coverage is better. > > > Is the tool capable of detecting misformatted MAINTAINERS entries? If > > so, that would help long-term maintenance a lot. > > Not really. > > The MAINTAINERS file format is weakly specified. > > I have a separate script that looks for patterns > that have no file matches and sections that have > no patterns. > > Any suggestions? Don't worry about it for now. Have a think about it later, as MAINTAINERS maintainer ;) > btw: I did not do any patterns for ARM or PowerPC. > Of course those could be added in the future. > > > I never have seen [patch 2/8] because the linux-foundation mail server > > thinks it's spam. > > Actually, if the mail server is to be believed, the > MAINTAINERS file already contains a SPAM URI and > could be rejected if you sent it to yourself as-is. > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 15:22 -0800, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: > > ----- The following addresses... > > > > > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > ... while talking to smtp1.linux-foundation.org.: > > >>> DATA > > <<< 451 4.3.2 Please try again later > > ... while talking to smtp2.linux-foundation.org.: > > >>> DATA > > <<< 554 5.7.1 Email body contains Spam URI > > 554 ,... Service unavailable > > > So if all the above looks OK then please resend > > everything (yet again) to akpm@kernel.org. > > Do you want me to wait for RC1 when most of the > MAINTAINERS changes should be done or do you want > it now? At -rc1 please. Let's try it out and if it looks good I'll see if I can fool Linus into taking it for -rc2, when things are a bit quieter.