b4 feature suggestion: rolestats in --auto-to-cc

b4 feature suggestion: rolestats in --auto-to-cc

[Jann Horn]

Hi!

One thing I run into when I prepare patches for upstream Linux
submission with b4 is that "b4 prep --auto-to-cc" puts a list of
recipients in the patch, but does not include comments with the
rolestats that scripts/get_maintainer.pl is able to generate. When I'm
not familiar with the subsystem, this means that I effectively end up
redoing the work that --auto-to-cc did - I have to either format the
patches and then feed them into scripts/get_maintainer.pl or look
through MAINTAINERS in the hope of finding out who got added for what
reason, so that I can decide for myself if the recipient list is
sensible.

I think it would be nice if each line generated by --auto-to-cc was
accompanied by a comment saying which roles that person was selected
for.

Thanks for building b4!

Re: b4 feature suggestion: rolestats in --auto-to-cc

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 08:56:52PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> One thing I run into when I prepare patches for upstream Linux
> submission with b4 is that "b4 prep --auto-to-cc" puts a list of
> recipients in the patch, but does not include comments with the
> rolestats that scripts/get_maintainer.pl is able to generate. When I'm
> not familiar with the subsystem, this means that I effectively end up
> redoing the work that --auto-to-cc did - I have to either format the
> patches and then feed them into scripts/get_maintainer.pl or look
> through MAINTAINERS in the hope of finding out who got added for what
> reason, so that I can decide for myself if the recipient list is
> sensible.
> 
> I think it would be nice if each line generated by --auto-to-cc was
> accompanied by a comment saying which roles that person was selected
> for.

Yes, interesting idea, though I'd be worried about it becoming overwhelming
for patch series that touch many subsystems. I'll experiment with various ways
we can communicate this data.

bugspray tag me

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