Re: [RFC PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: add interactive mode

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 07:31 +0200, Florian Mickler wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:38:52 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > > > Because git history is now not searched by default
> > > > when there is a named maintainer, there are no
> > > > commit signers.
> > > Don't know if this is intuitive. If there is the possibility to have
> > > them shown but not selected, that would be ideal as it relieves the
> > > user from pressing extra keys while still having a sane behaviour.
> > Use a command line option: --git.
> > All command line options apply to create the initial list of
> > displayed names.
> > Or add code to set
> > 	$git-fallback = 1 if $interactive;
> Are you opposed to that second solution?

Not at all.

I'd prefer to default select all returned entries though.
Maybe add some key to deselect the non-maintainer
git added entries.

> > $ git log --since=1-year-ago | grep -i "by:.*@" | \
> >   cut -f1 -d":" | sort -i | uniq -ci | sort -rn | head -10
> >   83413     Signed-off-by
> >    6544     Acked-by
> >    2022     Reviewed-by
> >    1691     Reported-by
> >    1065     Tested-by
> >     111     Reported-and-tested-by
> >      83     Suggested-by
> >      31     Requested-by
> >      28         Signed-off-by
> >      26     Fixed-by
> That's just sad. At least there are more Reviewed-By then Reported-By. 
> I don't think this actually represents reality of the
> development process. 

I think most all reviewers don't add reviewed-by acks
and most submitters don't collect them.

> > > That should just be $$bool_ref = !$$bool_ref (and probably not a
> > > function)
> > I think it needs to be a function.
> > I want a 0 or 1, not "" or 1.
> Sorry, I didn't look at the use of that. What about  
> $bool = (1 - !!$bool) 
> then? (if $bool is always 1 or 0, you can drop the double negation in
> front of it)

<shrug> Sure.  I don't care which is used.