On Fri, 2020-11-27 at 13:43 -0800, t...@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Tom Rix <t...@redhat.com>
>
> From
> RFC MAINTAINERS tag for cleanup robot
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/11/21/190
I think this should be RFC.
It looks as as if it's only for subsystems through A
> The prefix used by subsystems in their commit log is arbitrary.
> To elimitate the time and effort to manually find a reasonable
> prefix, store the preferred prefix in the MAINTAINERS file.
>
> Populate with reasonable prefixes using this algorithm.
> What did the maintainers use in their commits?
> If there were no maintainers commits then what did everyone
> else use in their commits.
The algorithm used to produce these prefixes should also be published.
> The results were manually reviewed and about 25% were rejected.
Because this isn't necessarily the best option.
I think an exception mechanism would be better than a specific
mechanism added to various entries.
> # check MAINTAINERS entries for the right ordering too
> - my $preferred_order = 'MRLSWQBCPTFXNK';
> + my $preferred_order = 'MRLSWQBCPTFXNKD';
> if ($rawline =~ /^\+[A-Z]:/ &&
> $prevrawline =~ /^[\+ ][A-Z]:/) {
> $rawline =~ /^\+([A-Z]):\s*(.*)/;
I'd prefer to keep the file and keyword list last.
