linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] get_maintainer.pl: only list maintainers by default

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Date:	Sat, 08 May 2010 16:51:06 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	florian@...kler.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] get_maintainer.pl: only list maintainers by
 default

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 01:23 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Joe Perches wrote:
> Reported-by and tested-by signatures in the git history commit /are/ in
> fact random WRT getting a list of handlers/ reviewers of a new patch.

Supporting stats please.

$ git log --since=1-year-ago | grep -Pi "(reported|tested)-by:.*@" \
  | cut -f2- -d":" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10
     77  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
     47  Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
     42  Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
     35  Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
     24  Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
     23  Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
     20  Brian Cavagnolo <brian@...ybit.com>
     17  Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
     17  Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
     16  Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>

Look like mostly patch authors and maintainers to me.

Brian Cavagnolo isn't a patch author, but he's an active tester.

> It is more likely that reporters and testers cannot or/and do not want to
> do anything about such a patch.  Such a mailing is called UBE.

I doubt that's true of even half of the reporters and testers.

I also doubt such patch emails fit any reasonable definition
of UBE.

cheers, Joe

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