linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default

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Date:	Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:28:44 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by
 default

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:46 +0200, Florian Mickler wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:19:33 -0700
> ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> > Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org> writes:
> >
> 
> 
> 
> > What is needed is something other than output that is a list of
> > email addresses.
> > 
> > email address foo had x% of non-author signed off bys
> > email address foo had y% of author signed off bys
> > email address foo had y% of author commits.
> > email address foo came from the Maintainers file.
> 
> Currently get_maintainer.pl only does signed-off-by counting, it doesn't
> take authorship in account, IIRC. That is a good point. It's
> information that is easily available. 
> 
> > 
> > Additionally for email addresses that hit less often a list
> > of patch subject titles, and truncated sha1 patch ids.  So
> > with luck you can tell at a glance the person is of interest
> > and if not you can look at their commits quickly and see.
> 
> An interactive mode in git shortlog form of the last year should be
> possible, i guess. 
> 
> I wonder, if git send-email --cc-cmd allows for directing input towards
> get_maintainer.pl. That would be awesome.

Yes it does.  You could use any script or direct command
with arguments you like.

I sent you privately a script that does that last week.


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