On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 08:32:55PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 05:09:29PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > Wow, I just looked at how get_maintainer.pl works, and it's amazing > > > how broken it is. I guess I had heard some rumblings of unhappiness > > > about it, but I'm surprised it's been allowed to live. > > > > In your opinion Ted, what's broken about it? > > > > It's casting **way** too wide of a net: Oh, and the output on fs/ext4/acl.c must have been created by a crack-addled monkey: % ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --roles -f fs/ext4/acl.c "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> (maintainer:EXT4 FILE SYSTEM) Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:EXT4 FILE SYSTEM) Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer) Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer) Joel Becker <joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer) James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer) Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> (commit_signer) linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:EXT4 FILE SYSTEM) linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list) I'm pretty sure Stephen Hemminger, Joel Becker, and James Morris don't want to get spammed by random ext4 e-mails. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
