Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Junio C Hamano <jch2355@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> No reason. I hope they read the mailing list, otherwise I'll resend
>>>> and CC them. A get_maintainers script, or something like that would
>>>> make things easier.
>>>
>>>I simply use
>>>
>>> git shortlog -sn --no-merges v1.7.0.. -- contrib/completion/
>>>
>>>(In many parts the revision limiter can be omitted without losing much,
>>>but e.g. here this drops Shawn who hasn't worked on it since 2009.)
>>
>> Or "--since=1.year", which you can keep using forever without adjusting.
>
> Perhaps something like that can be stored in a script somewhere in
> git's codebase so that people can set sendemail.cccmd to that.
Umm, that seems rather AI-complete. You should always compile the list
by hand.
For example, the list in this case started
25 SZEDER Gábor
4 Michael J Gruber
3 Teemu Matilainen
3 Thomas Rast
Would you Cc Michael, Teemu and me? Probably not. What if it started
5 SZEDER Gábor
4 Michael J Gruber
3 Teemu Matilainen
3 Thomas Rast
Also, something I didn't mention so far was that you may be patching
squarely into the code of one contributor, even if he only had a single
patch in that area. To catch this, you should blame the code you are
fixing (you already checked the message of the commit to verify whether
the bug/feature was intentional, right?). On top of that, the patch may
have involved a large number of people not listed in the Author field.
As a random example,
$ git shortlog -sn --no-merges v1.7.0..origin/next -- grep.[ch] builtin/grep.[ch]
15 René Scharfe
9 Junio C Hamano
8 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
5 Michał Kiedrowicz
4 Johannes Schindelin
3 Jeff King
3 Thomas Rast
but if you were to submit a patch that disputes the case made by
53b8d931, you should probably cc René, Peff and me (see the Helped-by
lines).
Ok, this got rather long-winded. But I think the bottom line is, trying
to put this in sendemail.cccmd is trying to script common sense.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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