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

Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-02-27T16:00:29Z

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 at 16:44, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> > 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.

... including a big fat message wrapped in a <BLINK> tag, which suggests
to check manually if a few addresses should be dropped?

Or perhaps this should be restricted to return mailing lists only?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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