Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl

Ray Lee
2007-08-15T15:31:44Z

On 8/15/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > git log --since=6.months.ago -- "$@" |
> > grep -i '^ [-a-z]*by:.*@' |
> > sort | uniq -c |
> > sort -r -n | head
> >
> > and it gives you a rather good picture of who is involved with a
> > particular subdirectory or file.
>
> No, it doesn't. The subscribers of <subsystem-devel@somewhere.org> are
> not listed in patch logs.

Then maybe they should be added into the patch logs. A CC: line isn't
that big of a deal, and also shows who got notified.