From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752842Ab0EIJf3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 May 2010 05:35:29 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:57621 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751661Ab0EIJf2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 May 2010 05:35:28 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4BE681D4.3070000@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 11:35:16 +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: florian@mickler.org CC: Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] get_maintainer.pl: optionally ignore non-maintainer tags References: <1273356373.704.56.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> <1273396544-4189-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> In-Reply-To: <1273396544-4189-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> 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 florian@mickler.org wrote: > Using --git to determine who to send a patch to, it is not > reasonable to include people that only reported an issue or tested a > patch. Thus we restrict the candidates to be the one's listed with > Reviewed-By, Signed-Off-By and Acked-By tags. > > Signed-Off-By:'s because that are people who are responsible for the code > in question. > > Reviewed-By:'s because people responsible for the code in question > obviously thought that the review-feedback for this changeset by that > person was valuable. > > The Acked-By: is questionable, but as people listed with this tag > tend to be active linux gatekeepers, false positives are tolerable. This and "get_maintainer.pl: only list maintainers by default" in conjunction: Reviewed-by: Stefan Richter But *don't* record this in the git history because then somebody might think I want to be Cc'd on get_maintainer.pl patches. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- -=-= -=--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/