Re: slowly decommission bugzilla?

Sven Peter
2026-02-27T15:18:28Z

On 27.02.26 16:16, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:04:25 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps point people at scripts/get_maintainer.pl
>>
>> Or heck, add a front-end to get_maintainer right here in this web page.
>> People paste in a pathname and it spits back a bunch of email
>> addresses.
>
> This actually sounds like a good idea. Someone just told me that they found
> a bug in a driver and I asked them if they notified upstream about it. They
> said no, because they didn't know how.
>
> I just told them to randomly modify the file, do a git diff and redirect it
> into another file (making a random patch), and run get_maintainers.pl on
> it. That's a big hack and having a better interface to point others too
> would be useful.

perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/some/file.c works as well
without the random patch detour.

Sven