From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752934Ab0IJLYG (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:24:06 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:53774 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751191Ab0IJLYE (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:24:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:44:08 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Mark Brown Cc: Joe Perches , florian@mickler.org, Andrew Morton , "Stephen Hemminger (role:commit_signer)" , "Wolfram Sang (role:commit_signer)" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Message-ID: <20100910124408.633afc48@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100910101818.GF3068@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> 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> <20100910101818.GF3068@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 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 > > One possible improvement that get_maintainers could > > add is to [optionally] CC the author of the first > > commit when there's no listed maintainer. > > That might be a nice option (though it will still give false positives). > Something based on percentage of the driver written rather than log > entry counts might also be interesting. Within a time limit yes. I'd guess a heuristic along the lines of original committer && has committed in the past 6 months might work rather well - and you could probably walk up the list of signed-off-by this way with the same rule and take a fair shot at a maintainer. Trouble is for a lot of other stuff beyond that you need to hit the person whose signoff is on most of the submits to that file/subtree in the past six months but not count wide cross tree commits That gets a bit harder to compute. Seems like there is a social sciences or systems research project here to do some graph theory and modelling into "who really maintains the Linux kernel" Alan