Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: get_maintainer: steer people away from using file paths

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 01:00:15PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Think as if instead of being Cc'd on patches, they got Bcc'd on them.
> 
> And how does reply work? I assume it would only go to those in To: or
> Cc: ? Is there enough context in the headers in a reply for the system
> to figure out who to Bcc: the reply to?

I have actually solved a similar problem already as part of a different
project (bugbot). We associate a set of additional addresses with a thread and
can send any thread updates to those addresses.

It would require a bit more effort to adapt it so we properly handle bounces,
but effectively this does what you're asking about -- replies sent to a thread
will be sent out to all addresses we've associated with that thread (via
get_maintainer.pl). In a sense, this will create a miniature pseudo-mailing
list per each thread with its own set of subscribers.

I just need to make sure this doesn't fall over once we are hitting
LKML-levels of activity.

-K