Hello, On 10/27/2015 12:00 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Wolfram Sang wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 02:32:36PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: >>> Regarding your address list -- it's too big. Most of your addressees >>> don't care about this patch. Please be more selective when sending >>> patches to people, most of us have enough (relevant) mail as it is. >> >> Probably more effective than to write every user of get_maintainer.pl: >> Patch it to not use git history by default and win the fight ;) > Agreed, coincidentally I was telling people today that get_maintainers.pl only provides a suggestion and that it should not be followed blindly. > Geert wrote to Joe today. Let's see if he can improve things. > What about something like the following patch until Joe writes a more smarter git fallback version? >From d6dc34810d24f33afb3c158d519966c1b6167a2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:46:52 +0900 Subject: [RFC PATCH] get_maintainer: Don't fallback to git by default The get_maintainer.pl script could be used to get a list of people that has to be in the copy list when posting patches for a given file but it defaults to git fallback so the list returned isn't really relevant and submitters are posting patches to random developers that just happened to touch that file in the past. Disable git fallback so get_maintainer.pl only returns the information that is in MAINTAINERS by default. Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl index 98bae869f6d0..b52ae26270e8 100755 --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ my $email_git = 0; my $email_git_all_signature_types = 0; my $email_git_blame = 0; my $email_git_blame_signatures = 1; -my $email_git_fallback = 1; +my $email_git_fallback = 0; my $email_git_min_signatures = 1; my $email_git_max_maintainers = 5; my $email_git_min_percent = 5; -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
