From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752065Ab0EIIkr (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 May 2010 04:40:47 -0400 Received: from ist.d-labs.de ([213.239.218.44]:48490 "EHLO mx01.d-labs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751722Ab0EIIkp (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 May 2010 04:40:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 10:40:41 +0200 From: Florian Mickler To: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Richter Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] get_maintainer.pl: only list maintainers by default Message-ID: <20100509104041.1186d5f1@schatten.dmk.lab> In-Reply-To: <1273358674.704.77.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> References: <1273354364-6016-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1273354778-6129-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1273358674.704.77.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 08 May 2010 15:44:34 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 23:39 +0200, florian@mickler.org wrote: > > If scm meta-information is used, only list people that signed-off or > > acked or reviewed the code in question. > > > > after all it's called get_maintainer.pl and not > > get_random_people_to_look_at_the_code.pl > > Anyone that actually signs a patch is not "random". > I actually think that tested-by and reviewed-by is not "signing", because it is not the person who does the "tag insertion". it was one of the signed-off-by's who put the reviewed- and testet-tags in there. presumably this is done in agreement with the mentioned person. And for facts, please check this out: $ git log --since=1-year-ago | grep -Pi "(reported|tested)-by:.*@" \ | cut -f2- -d":" | sort | uniq | wc -l 1280 so i would say, these numbers (combied with your top ten which accounts for only 318 signatures ) suggest that those mentioned with these tag's are one-off bug reporters and not maintainers. cheers, Flo