On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 02:54:25AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:51:53 -0700 "Kok, Auke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Some extensions to the popular E-Mail clients might be needed > > > here. Also, a bot reading LKML would automatically send links > > > about posted patches to the other mailing lists whenever > > > someone forgets to add a CC. > > > > > > Any comments? > > > > an easier way to implement this is to add an extra field in the MAINTAINERS > > file, something like below. All the contact info would stay the same, > > closely > > where applicable and it would allow you to also specify specific files as > > well. > > We already have that information in git. Parse the git changelogs of the > affected files, find out who works on them.
I think it's quite complex to make a reliable inference of maintainership information from git. Given a set of historical modifiers of a file, would you take the most common commiter(s), or the most common _recent_ commiter(s), or what? It's a bit fuzzy. Moreover, it is slow in comparison and assumes the availability of local .git db, which wouldn't be the case for some porition of patch submitters. > Not that it'll help much, given the amnount of stuff which gets > mysteriously ignored even when the correct people are cc'ed... Hopefully it gets ignored if it is quite low in priority. In that case the CC is a NOP but might still be good for archiving purposes. > (For extra giggles we could parse emailed oops and bug reports and add the > appropriate cc's there too. Harder.) BTS was discussed to death already, let's not delve into that... -- Dan Aloni XIV LTD, http://www.xivstorage.com da-x (at) monatomic.org, dan (at) xiv.co.il - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
