Re: [PATCH 0/10] MAINTAINERS - script, patterns, and misc fixes

Andrew Morton
2009-01-14T07:14:23Z

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:26:50 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> 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.

The latter would be better?

> 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>
>

I assume there's some remove-akpm rule? If so, can we please remove
it? This tool will be used for bug reports and patches - I want to see
those emails!

Thanks.