Re: slowly decommission bugzilla? (was: Re: kernel.org tooling update)

Richard Weinberger
2026-02-27T15:35:59Z

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> Von: "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>> 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.

I'm pretty sure someone can vibe code us a neat webinterface which queries
get_maintainers.pl in the background.

Thanks,
//richard