Hello Laura, Thanks a lot for your feedback.
On 10/27/2015 08:00 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: > On 10/26/2015 03:11 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> 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. >> >> Suggested-by: Wolfram Sang <w...@the-dreams.de> >> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <jav...@osg.samsung.com> >> >> --- >> Hello, >> >> This patch was suggested by Wolfram on this thread [0] but it is >> something I thought before because I've seen people complaining >> on a regular basis about being cc'ed in random patches and there >> are tools like patman [1] that rely on get_maintainers.pl to post >> the patches. >> >> [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/26/444 >> [1]: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=tools/patman/README >> >> Best regards, >> Javier >> > > We might need to do a sweep of files to make sure more of them are > listed in the maintainers file, else by default they only show LKML. > As an example, a bunch of files in lib are only showing LKML. > Defaulting to only sending to LKML may be swinging too far in the wrong > direction for reducing inbox size. > You are correct, disabling git fallback could be a too radical solution for now until the MAINTAINERS file is more complete. I'll do some auditing to the files in the source tree and see if I can come with a patch series that improves the state of MAINTAINERS before disabling this option by default. Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
