linux-kernel - Re: whomto.pl -- finding out whom to send patches to

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Date:	Thu, 29 May 2008 11:20:33 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@...il.com>, git@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: whomto.pl -- finding out whom to send patches to

> I've written this perl script that takes a patch as input and prints the
> authors/committers of the affected lines, using git-blame as the back end.

Nice enough script.
It's unfortunate that it can't output the appropriate mailing lists.

I think the shell script that Linus gave awhile ago:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/14/276

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

         (Maybe you want to add a
               grep -v '\(Linus Torvalds\)\|\(Andrew Morton\)'

might work just as well.

I still prefer the file pattern match in MAINTAINERS, or
another external file, and/or data stored directly into GIT
via gitattributes approaches.

This script can give maintainer, mailing lists, and git
contact information for patches or files.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/20/352
The script works with git-send-email to cc the appropriate parties.

This script and git repository is very old and probably doesn't apply...
git pull git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/trivial-mods.git get_maintainer

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