Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default

Joe Perches
2010-09-15T03:28:47Z

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:46 +0200, Florian Mickler wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:19:33 -0700
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> > Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> writes:
> >
>
>
>
> > What is needed is something other than output that is a list of
> > email addresses.
> >
> > email address foo had x% of non-author signed off bys
> > email address foo had y% of author signed off bys
> > email address foo had y% of author commits.
> > email address foo came from the Maintainers file.
>
> Currently get_maintainer.pl only does signed-off-by counting, it doesn't
> take authorship in account, IIRC. That is a good point. It's
> information that is easily available.
>
> >
> > Additionally for email addresses that hit less often a list
> > of patch subject titles, and truncated sha1 patch ids. So
> > with luck you can tell at a glance the person is of interest
> > and if not you can look at their commits quickly and see.
>
> An interactive mode in git shortlog form of the last year should be
> possible, i guess.
>
> I wonder, if git send-email --cc-cmd allows for directing input towards
> get_maintainer.pl. That would be awesome.

Yes it does. You could use any script or direct command
with arguments you like.

I sent you privately a script that does that last week.