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On 08/02/2016 20:15, Peter Maydell wrote:
> That difference from the kernel script's behaviour is deliberate, because
> the attempt to list recent contributors tends to list a whole lot of
> irrelevant people. So if there's a documented maintainer we prefer to
> just list them, and not all the random other people looking at the git
> logs drags up. Commit c6561586f0f8586 is where we changed the behaviour
> of get_maintainer.pl and the commit message has some rationale.

It should be enough not to check @list_to in the line that commit
c6561586f0f8586 adds:

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 7dacf32..f2ee9d8 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ sub get_maintainers {
 
     if ($email) {
 	if (! $interactive) {
-	    $email_git_fallback = 0 if @email_to > 0 || @list_to > 0 || $email_git || $email_git_blame;
+	    $email_git_fallback = 0 if @email_to > 0 || $email_git || $email_git_blame;
 	    if ($email_git_fallback) {
 	        print STDERR "get_maintainer.pl: No maintainers found, printing recent contributors.\n";
 	        print STDERR "get_maintainer.pl: Do not blindly cc: them on patches!  Use common sense.\n";

I think this makes sense.

Paolo