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SubjectRe: get_maintainer.pl and MAINTAINERS file
Em Thu, 19 May 2016 16:25:45 +0200
Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> escreveu:

> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > (Changed the subject from "Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] auxdisplay: Introduce ht16k33 driver")
> >
> > Robin van der Gracht <robin@protonic.nl> writes:
> >
> >>> And 4th, what is with the insane number of people on cc:? Use
> >>> get_maintainer.pl correctly please, and don't just hit everyone you
> >>> can possibly think of with a cc: for no good reason.
> >>
> >> I did use the get_maintainer script. I solely passed the patch set as
> >> command line argument.
> >
> > I think get_maintainer script should ignore MAINTAINERS file altogether.
> > After I did drivers/net/wireless reorganisation, and had to make
> > numerous changes to MAINTAINERS in the process, I have been CCed to all
> > sorts of patchsets to which I have nothing to do with (this one
> > included). I suspect get_maintainer.pl is to blame here.
>
> Are you sure it is because you are listed as maintainer for specific files?
> If you are maintain something you have to be CC'ed.
> It is rather because get_maintainer.pl tries to be smart and uses git to
> find people who have touched a file...
>
> I guess instead you want something like:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/538561

I guess what Kalle said is that the get_maintainer.pl script should
disable, by default, "--git-blame" behavior for some specific files that
everyone touches like /MAINTAINERS, Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt,
/CREDITS, etc, as random people that touch on those files aren't really
interested on being c/c to every change there.

Regards,
Mauro

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