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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, pavel@ucw.cz,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] MAINTAINERS - script, patterns, and misc fixes
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:26:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231907210.7935.527.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090113125435.4821123a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:54 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> akpm:/usr/src/git26> ../25/scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/filemap.c 
> Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> 
> I think Balbir would be surprised!

get_maintainer output is in alphabetical order,
not ordered by signer frequency.

Balbir Singh is one of the top 5 signers over the last year
for mm/filemap.c excluding you and Linus.

$ git log --since=1-year-ago mm/filemap.c | \
	grep -P "^ +.*by:" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
     38     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
     35     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     14     Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      5     Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      5     Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      4     Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      4     Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> My script generates what I consider to be better results:
> 
> akpm:/usr/src/25> who-maintains.sh mm/filemap.c
> Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
> Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
> Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
> Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
> 
> For some (git related) reason it is vastly slower than yours.

I think the major reason is your script is using all git history.
get_maintainer.pl is using just the last calendar year.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-13 20:28 [PATCH 0/10] MAINTAINERS - script, patterns, and misc fixes Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 01/10] Add scripts/get_maintainer.pl Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 02/10] MAINTAINERS - Add file patterns Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 03/10] MAINTAINERS - Standardize style Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 04/10] MAINTAINERS - Remove CS4280 Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 05/10] MAINTAINERS - Remove HP Fibre Channel HBA no longer in tree Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 06/10] MAINTAINERS - standardize "T: git urls" Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 07/10] MAINTAINERS - Add Linus Torvalds' git Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 08/10] MAINTAINERS - Add FTRACE git Joe Perches
2009-01-14  5:59   ` Paul Mundt
2009-01-14  6:19     ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14 13:16       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-14 13:35         ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-01-14 22:37         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 09/10] MAINTAINERS - i2c_tiny_usb T: should be W: Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:28 ` [PATCH 10/10] MAINTAINERS - Update FPU Emulator contact address and web page Joe Perches
2009-01-13 20:54 ` [PATCH 0/10] MAINTAINERS - script, patterns, and misc fixes Andrew Morton
2009-01-14  3:49   ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14  4:26   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2009-01-14  7:13     ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-14  7:21       ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14 19:37       ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14 19:55         ` Joe Perches
2009-01-14  9:30   ` Pavel Machek

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