On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > 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(-) Works for me. Although you should have used get_maintainer.pl and CC'ed Joe. ;) I never did this before -- it was both odd and fun: $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f scripts/get_maintainer.pl Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:GET_MAINTAINER SCRIPT) > 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; -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- 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
