On Aug 28 2023 10:21, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 26/08/2023 10:07, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote: > > This script runs get_maintainer.py on a given patch file (or multiple > > patch files) and adds its output to the patch file in place with the > > appropriate email headers "To: " or "Cc: " as the case may be. These new > > headers are added after the "From: " line in the patch. > > > > Currently, for a single patch, maintainers and reviewers are added as > > "To: ", mailing lists and all other roles are added as "Cc: ". > > > > For a series of patches, however, a set-union scheme is employed in > > order to solve the all-too-common problem of ending up sending only > > subsets of a patch series to some lists, which results in important > > pieces of context such as the cover letter (or other patches in the > > series) being dropped from those lists. This scheme is as follows: > > > > - Create set-union of all maintainers and reviewers from all patches and > > use this to do the following per patch: > > - add only that specific patch's maintainers and reviewers as "To: " > > - add the other maintainers and reviewers from the other patches as "Cc: " > > > > - Create set-union of all mailing lists corresponding to all patches and > > add this to all patches as "Cc: " > > > > - Create set-union of all other roles corresponding to all patches and > > add this to all patches as "Cc: " > > > > Please note that patch files that don't have any "Maintainer"s or > > "Reviewers" explicitly listed in their `get_maintainer.pl` output will > > So before you will ignoring the reviewers, right? One more reason to not > get it right... In v2, Reviewers were added as "Cc:" whereas here in v3 they are added as "To:". Not sure where you're getting "ignoring the reviewers" from. > > not have any "To: " entries added to them; developers are expected to > > manually make edits to the added entries in such cases to convert some > > "Cc: " entries to "To: " as desired. > > > > The script is quiet by default (only prints errors) and its verbosity > > can be adjusted via an optional parameter. > > > > Signed-off-by: Guru Das Srinagesh <quic_gurus@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > MAINTAINERS | 5 ++ > > scripts/add-maintainer.py | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 2 files changed, 169 insertions(+) > > create mode 100755 scripts/add-maintainer.py > > > > I do not see the benefits of this script. For me - it's unnecessarily > more complicated instead of my simple bash function which makes Your function adds mailing lists also in "To:" which is not ideal, in my view. You've mentioned before that To or Cc doesn't matter [1] which I disagree with: it doesn't matter, why does Cc exist as a concept at all? [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/af1eca37-9fd2-1e83-ab27-ebb51480904b@xxxxxxxxxx/ Thank you. Guru Das.