The output of get_maintainer.pl doesn't make clear that a supporter is a
type of maintainer who should be mailed when generating a patch.
In various places in the documentation we make reference to the necessity
to remember to include the appropriate maintainers when sending your patch
but, we confusingly don't call out supporters as maintainers in our
automation utility.
Fix that up now by having get_maintainers.pl print 'maintainer[volunteer]'
or 'maintainer[supporter]'.
Suggested-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index ab123b498fd9b..f1a081806bf82 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -1283,9 +1283,9 @@ sub get_maintainer_role {
$role = lc($role);
if ($role eq "supported") {
- $role = "supporter";
+ $role = "maintainer[supporter]";
} elsif ($role eq "maintained") {
- $role = "maintainer";
+ $role = "maintainer[volunteer]";
} elsif ($role eq "odd fixes") {
$role = "odd fixer";
} elsif ($role eq "orphan") {
--
2.37.3
