Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists)

[josh@joshtriplett.org]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 07:24:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:44:16PM +0000, Jason Cooper wrote:
> 
> > --kernel would go through each patch and auto-fills Cc based on MAINTAINERS.
> > Amongst a few other things.  Shallow threading, check/edit cover letter
> > and so forth.
> 
> People blindly CCing everyone get_maintainers finds can be a bit of a
> problem, either they use --git and the false positive rate is quite high
> or they don't and they miss out relevant people because MAINTAINERS
> isn't 100% filled in or the reasons for CCing aren't entirely file
> based.
> 
> The false positives are a bit of an issue since it discourages people
> doing smaller cleanups over wide areas, you can end up getting CCed on
> lots of things you touched which can be a bit offputting.

--git-fallback seems to work pretty well.  It nicely embodies the
approach of "if it doesn't have a maintainer, talk to the last poor
sucker who touched it".

- Josh Triplett