From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933434Ab0I0T0z (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:26:55 -0400 Received: from ist.d-labs.de ([213.239.218.44]:42987 "EHLO mx01.d-labs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759624Ab0I0T0x (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:26:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:26:50 +0200 From: Florian Mickler To: "Ted Ts'o" Cc: Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , Stephen Hemminger , Wolfram Sang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name by default Message-ID: <20100927212650.62859ee0@schatten.dmk.lab> In-Reply-To: <20100927182124.GA3168@thunk.org> References: <1284111212-10659-1-git-send-email-florian@mickler.org> <1285527125.1732.24.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20100927165748.354742f2@schatten.dmk.lab> <20100927154441.GE3602@thunk.org> <20100927190026.20ddc268@schatten.dmk.lab> <20100927182124.GA3168@thunk.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6cvs31 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:21:24 -0400 Ted Ts'o 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...