From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965592AbbJ0Rtm (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:49:42 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0069.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.69]:39136 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964840AbbJ0Rtk (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:49:40 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 50,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:967:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1431:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2525:2560:2563:2682:2685:2828:2859:2892:2911:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3353:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3874:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:3959:4250:4321:4425:5007:6261:6691:7901:7903:8531:8957:9010:9025:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12043:12050:12517:12519:12740:13069:13161:13184:13229:13311:13357:14096:14097:21080:30003:30054:30060:30075:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:2,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: beam51_19babd76e7452 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2582 Message-ID: <1445968175.2757.14.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default From: Joe Perches To: Wolfram Sang Cc: Lee Jones , "Theodore Ts'o" , Javier Martinez Canillas , Laura Abbott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:49:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20151027102950.GB3405@katana> References: <1445897508-16528-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> <562EB07B.9040501@redhat.com> <562EC06C.5010404@osg.samsung.com> <20151027024729.GC16244@thunk.org> <20151027082150.GQ597@x1> <20151027092411.GA3405@katana> <20151027101022.GA5828@x1> <20151027102950.GB3405@katana> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 11:29 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > act as reviewers, they should have a mention in MAINTAINERS for > > get_maintiner.pl to pull information from: > > > > R: Designated reviewer: FullName > > These reviewers should be CCed on patches. > > I think this should do. > > Interested parties should start by scanning the mailing list :) I think the concept of reviewers is fine. A couple weeks ago, I suggested a mechanism to have reviewers concentrate their entries into separate REVIEWERS file(s) https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/16/649 These REVIEWERS* files would also work for companies that have people with specific areas of expertise that want internal review before public exposure. Kconfig and Makefile files in directories like drivers/i2c/busses are outliers because all new individual drivers are added to both files. The mechanism to limit git-fallback use is a directory depth match. Wolfram has a MAINTAINERS entry of: F: drivers/i2c/ but that doesn't pattern doesn't match the directory depth of file drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig so git-fallback is used for files that don't have specific MAINTAINERS. It _might_ make some sense to limit activation of git history in that specific case, but for some path like arch/, that limitation might _not_ make sense.