This series aims to add "D:" which behaves exactly the same as "K:" but works only on patch files. The goal of this is to reduce noise when folks use get_maintainer on tree files as opposed to patches. "D:" should help maintainers reduce noise in their inboxes, especially when matching omnipresent keywords like [1]. In the event of [1] Kees would be to/cc'd from folks running get_maintainer on _any_ file containing "__counted_by". The number of these files is rising and I fear for his inbox as his goal, as I understand it, is to simply monitor the introduction of new __counted_by annotations to ensure accurate semantics. Joe mentioned in v1 that perhaps K: should be reworked to only consider patch files. I wonder, though, if folks are intentionally using the current behavior of K: and thus would be peeved from a change there. I see this series as, at the very least, a gentle migration in behavior which is purely opt-in and at some point could eagerly be merged with K:. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230925172037.work.853-kees@xxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - remove bits about non-patch usage being bad (thanks Greg, Kees, et al.) - remove formatting pass (thanks Joe) (but seriously the formatting is bad, is there opportunity to get a formatting pass in here at some point?) - add some migration from K to D (thanks Kees, Nick) - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927-get_maintainer_add_d-v1-0-28c207229e72@xxxxxxxxxx --- Justin Stitt (2): get_maintainer: add patch-only keyword-matching MAINTAINERS: migrate some K to D MAINTAINERS | 21 ++++++++++++++------- scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 12 ++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 6465e260f48790807eef06b583b38ca9789b6072 change-id: 20230926-get_maintainer_add_d-07424a814e72 Best regards, -- Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
