From: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:26:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100927212650.62859ee0@schatten.dmk.lab> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100927182124.GA3168@thunk.org>
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:21:24 -0400
Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> (I've argued for not even trying, but clearly
> people who have tried to argue for that have lost that battle; enough
> people seem to think it's worth while to make wild guesses even though
> the script is called get_maintainer.pl, and not
> get_maintainer_or_make_wild_stabs_in_the_dark.pl.)
>
> - Ted
Actually, I think get_maintainer_or_make_wild_stabs_in_the_dark.pl is
a better strategy to ensure that a patch doesn't get ignored then
to ... well.. do nothing.
> P.S. Wouldn't it be better to train kernel newbies how to read
> through the output of git log themselves? I'm not sure that training
> people to rely blindly on dumb scripts is in the end actually going to
> be doing ourselves and the whole community a service. Sigh....
Yes and no. Reaching out to people is something kernel newbies
need to learn too...
I'd agree if the end result of get_maintainer.pl would be to send it to
random machines... but we actually give out
addresses of human beings, so I don't think it is _that_ bad an idea.
But we should definitely try to tune down the annoying part of
it by making it less random and maybe by adding a tag in the cc field...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-27 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-10 9:33 [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default florian
2010-09-10 9:42 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10 9:46 ` Wolfram Sang
2010-09-10 9:53 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-10 10:04 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10 10:18 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-10 10:47 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10 11:07 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-11 0:22 ` [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: Add --git-blame --rolestats "Authored lines" information Joe Perches
2010-09-11 9:38 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11 9:52 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 10:02 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11 10:22 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 19:22 ` [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Add and describe scripts/get_maintainer.pl Joe Perches
2010-09-11 19:34 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11 19:43 ` [PATCH V2] " Joe Perches
2010-09-12 16:18 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 11:44 ` [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Alan Cox
2010-09-10 10:22 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 10:47 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 21:22 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-10 10:30 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 11:04 ` Mark Brown
2010-09-10 11:15 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 21:04 ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-10 21:39 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 21:44 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-13 4:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-09-13 5:21 ` [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Look for .get_maintainer.conf in lk, then $HOME then scripts Joe Perches
2010-09-13 6:13 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-13 13:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-09-10 11:11 ` [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 15:12 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 9:34 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-11 0:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-11 0:31 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 0:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-11 0:56 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-11 9:28 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-13 7:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-13 7:57 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-13 8:54 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-14 17:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-14 17:46 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-15 3:28 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-15 4:34 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-15 4:45 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-15 12:49 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-14 23:15 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-13 9:01 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-14 17:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-26 18:52 ` RFC: " Joe Perches
2010-09-27 14:57 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-27 15:44 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-27 17:00 ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-27 18:21 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-27 19:26 ` Florian Mickler [this message]
2010-09-27 20:08 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-27 20:47 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-27 21:16 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-28 4:22 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-28 4:37 ` Mark Brown
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