From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:33:02 +0200 Message-ID: <46C1F55E.1020908@gmail.com> References: <1186984174.10249.7.camel@localhost> <200708131933.10125.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: Joe Perches X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 14 20:37:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IL1GI-0001QE-NC for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:37:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756234AbXHNSg6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:36:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752834AbXHNSg5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:36:57 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:57144 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752146AbXHNSg4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:36:56 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1772 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:36:56 EDT Received: from [213.51.146.188] (port=45918 helo=smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1IL1GA-0000pi-5y; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:36:54 +0200 Received: from cc334381-b.groni1.gr.home.nl ([82.73.12.33]:50468 helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1IL1G7-0003XT-TH; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:36:51 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) In-Reply-To: <1187116082.32555.122.camel@localhost> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 08/14/2007 08:28 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:03 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: >> "git info --maintainer drivers/ide/ide-cd.c" or some such would say "Alan >> Cox ". > > Perhaps maintainer(s), approver(s), listener(s)? > > I think something like this should be a git-goal. > What do the git-wranglers think? I agree. If this thing has source management, let's use it. > Until a time in the future when a system like that exists, > I suggest keeping MAINTAINERS up-to-date with > > F: pattern > > It'll be useful as git-set-maintainer seeds at least. Yes. Seeing as how it's already been useful in updating the information it would be a shame to throw what you already did away. Don't underestimate how fast git-wranglers can implement stuff if they agree though... :-) >> sticking headers on every source file isn't nice anyway -- >> it's meta-information and the SCM can maintain it. > > It's like looking at $CVS$ keywords. Unsightly. Again agree. Rene.