Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I don't think of this as "big enough to require this". I rather think >> about the onboarding experience for new folks here. Sure, we can ask >> them to "Please run git-shortlog(1) to figure out whom to Cc". But if we >> instead provide a nice script that does it for them then we make their >> lifes easier. > > Do you think that the script in contrib/contacts does a sufficient job > at this? Yup, that was my first reaction. If it is not sufficient to mechanically mine history with shortlog or blame or contacts, and if we can add a high quality hand-curated input to improve the result contacts gives us, that would be a progress. I view the MAINTAINERS format just one way to give such human generated input. > Perhaps we haven't been as good at advertising this script as we could > be, and that's why it isn't as widely used as it could be? I'm not sure. Good point. Do we even mention it in MyFirstSomething docs?
