On 10/20/2014 11:19 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
In my experience, too many files are not covered by MAINTAINERS.
scripts/get_maintainer.pl falls back to git then, unless you say
--no-git-fallback. Copies sent there tends to annoy their recipients
without accomplishing all that much.
Two obvious improvements:
* Easy: Flip scripts/get_maintainer.pl's default to --no-git-fallback.
I'll post the obvious patch, please raise your objections there.
In many cases it annoys recipients. In other cases, the top 1-2 results
are actually a good match for a prospective maintainer. I suspect this
is the case for most tests, in fact.
Paolo
