Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] scripts: Add add-maintainer.py

Jeff Johnson
2023-08-30T18:35:13Z

On 8/30/2023 4:22 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 04:16:39PM -0700, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
>
>> If this script is accepted and gains adoption, maintainers like yourself will
>> only be To-ed in patches that touch files that you're a direct "Maintainer" or
>> "Reviewer" of. For all other patches in the series you'll be in "Cc:". I
>> imagine that this can be very useful regardless of the specifics of your
>> workflow.
>
> Given that b4 solves a lot more problems and is getting quite widely
> adopted it's probably going to be more effective to look at trying to
> get this implemented there. That might still mean a separate script
> that b4 can hook into, but it's probably important that whatever you do
> can be used easily with b4.

As someone who has recently moved to using b4 I second this comment.
b4 makes it so much easier to maintain patch versioning and to add the
right folks to the review. And most folks aren't performing tree-wide
changes so the per-patch customization doesn't seem to be a big win.

/jeff