linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] get_maintainer: add patch-only keyword matching

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Message-ID: <20230927-get_maintainer_add_d-v1-0-28c207229e72@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2023 03:19:13 +0000
From:   Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
        geert@...ux-m68k.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        workflows@...r.kernel.org, mario.limonciello@....com,
        Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] get_maintainer: add patch-only keyword matching

This series aims to add "D:" which behaves exactly the same as "K:" but
works only on patch files.

The goal of this is to reduce noise when folks use get_maintainer on
tree files as opposed to patches. This use case should be steered away
from [1] but "D:" should help maintainers reduce noise in their inboxes
regardless, especially when matching omnipresent keywords like [2]. In
the event of [2] Kees would be to/cc'd from folks running get_maintainer
on _any_ file containing "__counted_by". The number of these files is
rising and I fear for his inbox as his goal, as I understand it, is to
simply monitor the introduction of new __counted_by annotations to
ensure accurate semantics.

See [3/3] for an illustrative example.

This series also includes a formatting pass over get_maintainer because
I personally found it difficult to parse with the human eye.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230726151515.1650519-1-kuba@kernel.org/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230925172037.work.853-kees@kernel.org/

Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
---
Justin Stitt (3):
      MAINTAINERS: add documentation for D:
      get_maintainer: run perltidy
      get_maintainer: add patch-only pattern matching type

 MAINTAINERS               |    3 +
 scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 3334 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 2 files changed, 1718 insertions(+), 1619 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 6465e260f48790807eef06b583b38ca9789b6072
change-id: 20230926-get_maintainer_add_d-07424a814e72

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>