New project: get_maintainer.pl web app

New project: get_maintainer.pl web app

[Laura Abbott]

Hi,

get_maintainers.pl has been the standard script for figuring out where to
send patches or bug reports. It has the disadvantage of requiring a kernel
tree to actually run though, which makes it harder for bug reports to
came in. I've started working on a small project to expose get_maintainers.pl
as a web app. This would let users enter information from a patch or crash
and call out to get_maintainers.pl. The current project just lets users
enter in a file path and it displays the output as is. There's lots of options
for what we could do with the output (omitting e-mails for those maintainers
who don't want to participate, printing out more helpful warnings etc.)

The project is at https://pagure.io/get_maintainers and is not even close
to ready for primetime (passing data to get_maintainer.pl almost certainly
needs more thought). I'm mostly interested if anyone else would find this
useful or has general feedback.

Thanks,
Laura

Re: New project: get_maintainer.pl web app

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 13:07 -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> get_maintainers.pl has been the standard script for figuring out where to
> send patches or bug reports. It has the disadvantage of requiring a kernel
> tree to actually run though, which makes it harder for bug reports to
> came in. I've started working on a small project to expose get_maintainers.pl
> as a web app. This would let users enter information from a patch or crash
> and call out to get_maintainers.pl. The current project just lets users
> enter in a file path and it displays the output as is. There's lots of options
> for what we could do with the output (omitting e-mails for those maintainers
> who don't want to participate, printing out more helpful warnings etc.)
> 
> The project is at https://pagure.io/get_maintainers and is not even close
> to ready for primetime (passing data to get_maintainer.pl almost certainly
> needs more thought). I'm mostly interested if anyone else would find this
> useful or has general feedback.

Is there a website already setup too?

Re: New project: get_maintainer.pl web app

[Laura Abbott]

On 02/09/2018 01:21 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 13:07 -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> get_maintainers.pl has been the standard script for figuring out where to
>> send patches or bug reports. It has the disadvantage of requiring a kernel
>> tree to actually run though, which makes it harder for bug reports to
>> came in. I've started working on a small project to expose get_maintainers.pl
>> as a web app. This would let users enter information from a patch or crash
>> and call out to get_maintainers.pl. The current project just lets users
>> enter in a file path and it displays the output as is. There's lots of options
>> for what we could do with the output (omitting e-mails for those maintainers
>> who don't want to participate, printing out more helpful warnings etc.)
>>
>> The project is at https://pagure.io/get_maintainers and is not even close
>> to ready for primetime (passing data to get_maintainer.pl almost certainly
>> needs more thought). I'm mostly interested if anyone else would find this
>> useful or has general feedback.
> 
> Is there a website already setup too?
> 

Not yet. You have to run the app locally.