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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] MAINTAINERS leaves too many files uncovered
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 10/20/2014 11:19 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> In my experience, too many files are not covered by MAINTAINERS.
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl falls back to git then, unless you say
> --no-git-fallback.  Copies sent there tends to annoy their recipients
> without accomplishing all that much.
>
> Two obvious improvements:
>
> * Easy: Flip scripts/get_maintainer.pl's default to --no-git-fallback.
>    I'll post the obvious patch, please raise your objections there.

In many cases it annoys recipients.  In other cases, the top 1-2 results 
are actually a good match for a prospective maintainer.  I suspect this 
is the case for most tests, in fact.

Paolo