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[106.167.171.201]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h15-20020aa79f4f000000b0053e75395705sm4303138pfr.127.2022.10.01.17.28.01 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 01 Oct 2022 17:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <71599eac-04ef-66d1-50d5-ebc564a6bf1d@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 09:27:59 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 From: Akira Yokosawa Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation/process: Add text to indicate supporters should be mailed To: Bryan O'Donoghue Cc: corbet@lwn.net, konstantin@linuxfoundation.org, krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@leemhuis.info, Theodore Ts'o References: <20220930064629.329514-2-bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org> <21f8d79a-0ad4-b28b-15d8-f4be0cfd9730@gmail.com> <70759d05-2646-57e5-0b87-3a196488f622@linaro.org> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <70759d05-2646-57e5-0b87-3a196488f622@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 11:37:03 +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote: > On 01/10/2022 03:37, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> FWIW, I actually think the output of get_maintainer.pl is pretty >> broken in this regard.=C2=A0 (Then again, I've never thought all that >> highly of get_maintainer.pl,*especially*=C2=A0 because of the bogus gi= t >> fallback, but that's another story.) >> >> Consider: >> >> % ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --file=C2=A0 drivers/acpi/power.c >> "Rafael J. Wysocki"=C2=A0 (supporter:ACPI) >> Len Brown=C2=A0 (reviewer:ACPI) >> linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org=C2=A0 (open list:ACPI) >> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org=C2=A0 (open list) >> >> I'm sorry, but that's just*wrong*.=C2=A0 Rafael is the*maintainer*=C2=A0= of the >> ACPI subsystem, and the term "supporter" is rarely if ever used >> anywhere in our docs.=C2=A0 As I said earlier, trying to treat S: fiel= d to >> say anything about the entitles listed under the M: field of the >> Maintainers file is a category error. >=20 > I agree, I made exactly this error. >=20 > I wasn't sure how people would necessarily feel about having > get_maintainer produce the string 'maintainer' for both Maintained and > Supported but, IMO it is more consistent to have it do so, since we ref= er > to maintainers all throughout the doucmentation and as you say above Ra= fael > is the person you *need* to mail there because he's the maintainer. You'd better CC Joe Perches, who is the maintainer of get_maintainer.pl. You might want to start a new thread with a different subject. The main point becomes the behavior of get_maintainer.pl. >=20 > Lets consider >=20 > - maintainer as a string for "S: Supported" > - Documentation update to reflect Krzysztof's point on git-fallback Sounds reasonable to me. Good luck! Thanks, Akira >=20 > --- > bod