linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default

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Message-ID: <1445968175.2757.14.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:49:35 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Cc:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default

On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 11:29 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > act as reviewers, they should have a mention in MAINTAINERS for
> > get_maintiner.pl to pull information from:
> > 
> > R: Designated reviewer: FullName <address@...ain>
> >    These reviewers should be CCed on patches.
> 
> I think this should do.
> 
> Interested parties should start by scanning the mailing list :)

I think the concept of reviewers is fine.

A couple weeks ago, I suggested a mechanism to have reviewers
concentrate their entries into separate REVIEWERS file(s)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/16/649

These REVIEWERS* files would also work for companies that have
people with specific areas of expertise that want internal review
before public exposure.

Kconfig and Makefile files in directories like drivers/i2c/busses
are outliers because all new individual drivers are added to both
files.

The mechanism to limit git-fallback use is a directory depth match.

Wolfram has a MAINTAINERS entry of:
	F:	drivers/i2c/
but that doesn't pattern doesn't match the directory depth of
file drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig so git-fallback is used for files
that don't have specific MAINTAINERS.

It _might_ make some sense to limit activation of git history in
that specific case, but for some path like arch/, that limitation
might _not_ make sense.


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