linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch

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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:40:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>, git@...r.kernel.org,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch -
 scripts/get_maintainer.pl

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:03 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> > "git info --maintainer drivers/ide/ide-cd.c" or some such would say "Alan 
> > Cox <alan@...>".
> 
> Perhaps maintainer(s), approver(s), listener(s)?
> 
> I think something like this should be a git-goal.
> What do the git-wranglers think?

The thing is, if you have git, you can basically already do this.

Do a script like this:

	#!/bin/sh
	git log --since=6.months.ago -- "$@" |
		grep -i '^    [-a-z]*by:.*@' |
		sort | uniq -c |
		sort -r -n | head

and it gives you a rather good picture of who is involved with a 
particular subdirectory or file.

A much *better* picture than some manually maintained thing, in fact, 
because it tells you who really does the work, and which way patches go...

(Maybe you want to add a

	grep -v '\(Linus Torvalds\)\|\(Andrew Morton\)'

to avoid seeing the normal chain too much, but hey, we probably want to 
know too. Anyway - the script can certainly be tweaked, the point is 
really just that the git tree _already_ contains the relevant 
information).

		Linus
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