[RFC PATCH 0/9] for 11.0 conversion* of get_maintainers.pl to python

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

*incomplete

I wanted to look at adding gitlab tags to MAINTAINERS and baulked
slightly at figuring out what I would need to change in the perl
script to cleanly handle it.

While we imported the perl script from the kernel I'm fairly sure we
don't use half the features it has and as us grey beards age out less
people will be willing to tweak it. Consider this a proof-of-concept
for discussion about if it is worth perusing this path.

It only supports the two main forms:

  ./scripts/get_maintainer.py -f path/to/file
  ./scripts/get_maintainer.py path/to/patch1 path/to/patch2 ...

But who needs more?

Future improvements could include some more detailed analysis in
conjugation with the repo to analysis:

  - missing areas of coverage
  - maintainer stats

Who knows maybe the kernel guys will want to import our script one day
;-)

Alex.

Alex Bennée (9):
  MAINTAINERS: fix missing names
  MAINTAINERS: fix libvirt entry
  MAINTAINERS: regularise the status fields
  scripts/get_maintainer.py: minimal argument parsing
  scripts/get_maintainer.py: resolve the source path
  scripts/get_maintainer.py: initial parsing of MAINTAINERS
  scripts/get_maintainer.py: add support for -f
  scripts/get_maintainer.py: add support reading patch files
  gitlab: add a check-maintainers task

 MAINTAINERS                    |  10 +-
 .gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml |   9 +
 scripts/get_maintainer.py      | 356 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 370 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 scripts/get_maintainer.py

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