From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:57:15 -0700 Message-ID: <1187121435.32555.166.camel@localhost> References: <1187026955.2688.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1187037445.6628.98.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1187054366.2757.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <46C10AA8.3090505@gmail.com> <20070814102033.604c8695@the-village.bc.nu> <46C1CFFE.4000001@gmail.com> <1187110824.32555.76.camel@localhost> <46C1EE6F.2080807@gmail.com> <1187116082.32555.122.camel@localhost> <20070814193333.GI21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Rene Herman , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Alan Cox , Arjan van de Ven , Trond Myklebust , Mariusz Kozlowski , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Al Viro X-From: linux-kernel-owner+glk-linux-kernel-3=40m.gmane.org-S934813AbXHNT5y@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 14 21:58:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IL2Wc-0006dV-NJ for glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:57:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934813AbXHNT5y (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:57:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758486AbXHNT5i (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:57:38 -0400 Received: from DSL022.labridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:4882 "EHLO perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754486AbXHNT5h (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:57:37 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.128] ([192.168.1.128]) by perches.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA23910; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:19:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20070814193333.GI21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2-2.1mdv2007.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:33 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > FWIW, I suspect that we are looking at that from the wrong POV. If > that's about "who ought to be Cc'd on the issues dealing with of pathnames>", why does it have to be tied to "who is maintainer for > "? Right, it doesn't have to. I think a notification list would be just fine. > I'm not suggesting something like fs.ext2@kernel.org with something > like majordomo allowing to add yourself to those, but something less > extreme in that direction might be worth thinking about... > Hell, even simple > $ finger fs/minix/dir.c@cc.kernel.org > with majordomo-like interface for adding yourself to such lists > might solve most of those problems... Might solve all of my wants for this problem. cheers, Joe