From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753317Ab0EHXYG (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2010 19:24:06 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:55678 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750996Ab0EHXYE (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2010 19:24:04 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4BE5F286.1020503@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 01:23:50 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20100415 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Perches CC: florian@mickler.org, Andrew Morton , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] get_maintainer.pl: only list maintainers by default References: <1273354364-6016-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1273354778-6129-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1273358674.704.77.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> In-Reply-To: <1273358674.704.77.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 23:39 +0200, florian@mickler.org wrote: >> If scm meta-information is used, only list people that signed-off or >> acked or reviewed the code in question. >> >> after all it's called get_maintainer.pl and not >> get_random_people_to_look_at_the_code.pl > > Anyone that actually signs a patch is not "random". Reported-by and tested-by signatures in the git history commit /are/ in fact random WRT getting a list of handlers/ reviewers of a new patch. It is more likely that reporters and testers cannot or/and do not want to do anything about such a patch. Such a mailing is called UBE. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- -=-= -=--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/