From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Roese Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:05:45 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/4] introduce get_maintainer.pl In-Reply-To: References: <1406852651-9787-1-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com> Message-ID: <54080139.8090900@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Daniel, On 04.09.2014 01:34, Simon Glass wrote: >> This series imports get_maintainer.pl from kernel and reintroduce >> the MAINTAINERS file in the according format. Currently one have to >> manually grep all infos about board maintainers or custodians from >> various sources like git log, wiki or boards.cfg. get_maintainer.pl >> makes this task much easier. Also patman is already able to use it >> for cc-cmd. >> >> The MAINTAINERS file contains all custodians and is hand-written based >> on infos from wiki [1] and u-boot git forks [2]. Thus the source files >> infos (F:) are not complete yet. Furthermore status (S:) and >> maintainership (M:) for some custodian trees are probably wrong. >> Any help in completing and fixing that is appreciated. >> >> The get_maintainers.pl script is modified to scan multiple >> MAINTAINERS files in the board directory. This is required >> with the switch to Kconfig which adds a MAINTAINERS file per board. >> >> Examples: >> >> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback -f board/sandbox/ >> Simon Glass (maintainer:SANDBOX BOARD) >> u-boot at lists.denx.de (open list) >> >> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback -f arch/sandbox/ >> Simon Glass (maintainer:SANDBOX) >> u-boot at lists.denx.de (open list) >> >> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback -f board/sandburst/metrobox/ >> Travis Sawyer (orphan (since 2014-03):METROBOX BOARD) >> u-boot at lists.denx.de (open list) >> >> This series is also available at git://git.denx.de/u-boot-mips.git/maintainers_v3. > > Patman now picks this up which is great. But it does sometimes produce > a long list of maintainers. I wonder if we could have an option to > turn it off (perhaps -m)? Yes, that would be good. I just recently got a very long Cc list in my quite bit patchset. This definitely was too much and I had to send those patches manually instead of using patman. We need an option to disable this. Thanks, Stefan