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Message-ID: <20070814193333.GI21089@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:33:33 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, 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, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:40:09AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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).
FWIW, I suspect that we are looking at that from the wrong POV. If
that's about "who ought to be Cc'd on the issues dealing with <list
of pathnames>", why does it have to be tied to "who is maintainer for
<pathname>"?
I'm not suggesting something like fs.ext2@...nel.org with something
like majordomo allowing to add yourself to those, but something less
extreme in that direction might be worth thinking about... Hell,
even simple
$ finger fs/minix/dir.c@...kernel.org
with majordomo-like interface for adding yourself to such lists
might solve most of those problems...
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