Re: [PATCH 0/8] MAINTAINERS - add script and patterns

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:24:08 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Will that be OK?  Will the tool still work OK is MAITNAINERS is a bit
> > wrong?
> 
> More or less.  By default it will still use git
> "-by:" signers.  More pattern coverage is better.
> 
> > Is the tool capable of detecting misformatted MAINTAINERS entries?  If
> > so, that would help long-term maintenance a lot.
> 
> Not really.
> 
> The MAINTAINERS file format is weakly specified.
> 
> I have a separate script that looks for patterns
> that have no file matches and sections that have
> no patterns.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Don't worry about it for now.  Have a think about it later, as
MAINTAINERS maintainer ;)

> btw: I did not do any patterns for ARM or PowerPC.
> Of course those could be added in the future.
> 
> > I never have seen [patch 2/8] because the linux-foundation mail server
> > thinks it's spam.
> 
> Actually, if the mail server is to be believed, the
> MAINTAINERS file already contains a SPAM URI and
> could be rejected if you sent it to yourself as-is.
> 
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 15:22 -0800, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
> >    ----- The following addresses...
> > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > 
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > ... while talking to smtp1.linux-foundation.org.:
> > >>> DATA
> > <<< 451 4.3.2 Please try again later
> > ... while talking to smtp2.linux-foundation.org.:
> > >>> DATA
> > <<< 554 5.7.1 Email body contains Spam URI
> > 554 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>... Service unavailable
> 
> > So if all the above looks OK then please resend
> > everything (yet again) to akpm@kernel.org.
> 
> Do you want me to wait for RC1 when most of the
> MAINTAINERS changes should be done or do you want
> it now?

At -rc1 please.  Let's try it out and if it looks good I'll see if I
can fool Linus into taking it for -rc2, when things are a bit quieter.