Re: Validating MAINTAINERS entries?

[Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 03:04:50PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:50:50PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > > I am presently plagued with reviews for lots of files that I've
> > > touched over the years.  Even if the changes were trivial.
> 
> > > Or is this just an education point?
> 
> > Education is not the answer.
> 
> > We've got thousands of devs and no one can keep track of everyone and
> > their motives.
> 
> I think the issue there is more that if someone sent a drive by patch to
> some driver they'll start showing up in the git history and often get
> CCed on future changes going forwards, which can then result in getting
> copied into further postings done by copying from prior postings.  That
> does feel somewhat tractable to education, at least in the early stages.

How about default tooling values, get_maintainer.pl in this case?

I tend to over-ride this default to 75% to avoid the aforementioned:

  --git-min-percent => minimum percentage of commits required (default: 5)

5 is not a lot of percent for seldomly touched source files.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]