Hello Lee, On 10/27/2015 01:45 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > 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. ;) > hehe, yes. I first wanted to share with Wolfram and you to see if that is what you were thinking about and that is why I didn't add Joe and marked the patch as RFC. I posted it as a proper patch now and also added a Suggested-by tag from Wolfram. > 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) > Fun indeed. [0]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7492371/ Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America -- 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
