From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753191AbbJ0AIS (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:08:18 -0400 Received: from lists.s-osg.org ([54.187.51.154]:53276 "EHLO lists.s-osg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751563AbbJ0AIR (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:08:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default To: Laura Abbott , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1445897508-16528-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> <562EB07B.9040501@redhat.com> Cc: Wolfram Sang , Lee Jones , Joe Perches From: Javier Martinez Canillas X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <562EC06C.5010404@osg.samsung.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:08:12 +0900 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <562EB07B.9040501@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Laura, Thanks a lot for your feedback. On 10/27/2015 08:00 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: > On 10/26/2015 03:11 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> The get_maintainer.pl script could be used to get a list of people that >> has to be in the copy list when posting patches for a given file but it >> defaults to git fallback so the list returned isn't really relevant and >> submitters are posting patches to random developers that just happened >> to touch that file in the past. >> >> Disable git fallback so get_maintainer.pl only returns the information >> that is in MAINTAINERS by default. >> >> Suggested-by: Wolfram Sang >> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas >> >> --- >> Hello, >> >> This patch was suggested by Wolfram on this thread [0] but it is >> something I thought before because I've seen people complaining >> on a regular basis about being cc'ed in random patches and there >> are tools like patman [1] that rely on get_maintainers.pl to post >> the patches. >> >> [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/26/444 >> [1]: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=tools/patman/README >> >> Best regards, >> Javier >> > > We might need to do a sweep of files to make sure more of them are > listed in the maintainers file, else by default they only show LKML. > As an example, a bunch of files in lib are only showing LKML. > Defaulting to only sending to LKML may be swinging too far in the wrong > direction for reducing inbox size. > You are correct, disabling git fallback could be a too radical solution for now until the MAINTAINERS file is more complete. I'll do some auditing to the files in the source tree and see if I can come with a patch series that improves the state of MAINTAINERS before disabling this option by default. Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America