Re: [Qemu-devel] posting patches in pull requests (was Re: [PATCH 08/29] cpu: Add qemu_for_each_cpu())

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 05:08:06PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 2 May 2013 16:59, Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> wrote:
> > Am 02.05.2013 16:57, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> >> Wow, you trust get_maintainer.pl that much? IME it
> >> tends to give a huge pile of useless cc suggestions.
> >
> > Useless? It's based on MAINTAINERS, which I expect maintainers to keep
> > up-to-date if they no longer want to maintain something. It's rather
> > that new files don't get entries and thus too few CCs at times IME.
> 
> The ccs based on MAINTAINERS are fine -- it's the random
> extras it picks based on other people who've made patches
> to the same files in the past that are usually wrong.

Just add --nogit then?

> For example I tried running it on a patch to MAINTAINERS
> itself, and it suggested ccing you, Alex, Stefan H,
> Peter Crosthwaite and Edgar, which is a random mishmash
> and doesn't include the key person you actually need
> to CC, ie Anthony.
> 
> The actual rule as far as I can tell for CCs is "if
> file is explicitly listed in MAINTAINERS, cc those people;
> otherwise CC either Blue and Aurelien [if a random
> target-* patch] or Anthony [everything else]; cc trivial
> if sufficiently small; also for bugfixes CC whoever wrote
> the commit you're fixing". get_maintainer.pl doesn't do
> that, so I just write CCs manually.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

You could also try to make get_maintainer.pl do what you want.
Well maybe beside trivial.