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

Linus Torvalds
2007-08-14T18:43:17Z

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:03 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> > "git info --maintainer drivers/ide/ide-cd.c" or some such would say "Alan
> > Cox <alan@...>".
>
> Perhaps maintainer(s), approver(s), listener(s)?
>
> I think something like this should be a git-goal.
> What do the git-wranglers think?

The thing is, if you have git, you can basically already do this.

Do a script like this:

#!/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.

A much *better* picture than some manually maintained thing, in fact,
because it tells you who really does the work, and which way patches go...

(Maybe you want to add a

grep -v '\(Linus Torvalds\)\|\(Andrew Morton\)'

to avoid seeing the normal chain too much, but hey, we probably want to
know too. Anyway - the script can certainly be tweaked, the point is
really just that the git tree _already_ contains the relevant
information).

Linus