When pushing patches to upstream, the `get_maintainer.pl` script is used to determine whom to send the patches to. Instead of having to manually process the output of the script, add a wrapper script to do that for you. The add-maintainer.py script adds maintainers (and mailing lists) to a patch, editing it in-place. Thanks to Bjorn for being a sounding board to this idea and for his valuable suggestions. Please try out this script with `--verbosity debug` for verifying that it's doing "the right thing". I've tested this with a patch series from various subsystems to ensure variety of maintainers and lists output and found it to be doing what it is supposed to do. I referred to the following links during development of this script: - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4427542/how-to-do-sed-like-text-replace-with-python - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4146009/python-get-list-indexes-using-regular-expression - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10507230/insert-line-at-middle-of-file-with-python v1 -> v2: - Added set-union logic based on Pavan's comments [1] and Bjorn's early suggestion - Expanded audience and added more mailing lists to get more review comments and feedback [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/63764b84-3ebd-4081-836f-4863af196228@xxxxxxxxxxx/ Guru Das Srinagesh (1): scripts: Add add-maintainer.py scripts/add-maintainer.py | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 113 insertions(+) create mode 100755 scripts/add-maintainer.py -- 2.40.0
