On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 10:21:32AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 26/08/2023 10:07, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> > This script runs get_maintainer.py on a given patch file (or multiple
> > patch files) and adds its output to the patch file in place with the
> > appropriate email headers "To: " or "Cc: " as the case may be. These new
> > headers are added after the "From: " line in the patch.
> >
> > Currently, for a single patch, maintainers and reviewers are added as
> > "To: ", mailing lists and all other roles are added as "Cc: ".
> >
> > For a series of patches, however, a set-union scheme is employed in
> > order to solve the all-too-common problem of ending up sending only
> > subsets of a patch series to some lists, which results in important
> > pieces of context such as the cover letter (or other patches in the
> > series) being dropped from those lists. This scheme is as follows:
> >
> > - Create set-union of all maintainers and reviewers from all patches and
> > use this to do the following per patch:
> > - add only that specific patch's maintainers and reviewers as "To: "
> > - add the other maintainers and reviewers from the other patches as "Cc: "
> >
> > - Create set-union of all mailing lists corresponding to all patches and
> > add this to all patches as "Cc: "
> >
> > - Create set-union of all other roles corresponding to all patches and
> > add this to all patches as "Cc: "
> >
> > Please note that patch files that don't have any "Maintainer"s or
> > "Reviewers" explicitly listed in their `get_maintainer.pl` output will
>
> So before you will ignoring the reviewers, right? One more reason to not
> get it right...
>
> > not have any "To: " entries added to them; developers are expected to
> > manually make edits to the added entries in such cases to convert some
> > "Cc: " entries to "To: " as desired.
> >
> > The script is quiet by default (only prints errors) and its verbosity
> > can be adjusted via an optional parameter.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Guru Das Srinagesh <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > MAINTAINERS | 5 ++
> > scripts/add-maintainer.py | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 169 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100755 scripts/add-maintainer.py
> >
>
> I do not see the benefits of this script. For me - it's unnecessarily
> more complicated instead of my simple bash function which makes
> everything one command less than here.
> One more thing to maintain.
Thanks for your bash script. I slightly modified it to keep maintainers
in To and rest in Cc.
git send-email --dry-run --to="$(scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-multiline --separator=, --no-r --no-l --no-git --no-roles --no-rolestats --no-git-fallback *.patch)" --cc="$(scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-multiline --separator=, --no-m --no-git --no-roles --no-rolestats --no-git-fallback *.patch)" *.patch
>
> I don't see the benefits of this for newcomers, either. They should use
> b4. b4 can do much, much more, so anyone creating his workflow should
> start from b4, not from this script.
The ROI from b4 is huge. Totally agree that one should definitely consider b4 for
kernel patch submissions. I really liked b4 appending a unique "change-id"
across patch-versions. This is the single most feature I miss out from gerrit where
all revisions of a patch are glued with a common change-id. If everyone uses, a common
change-id for all versions of series, it is super easy to dig into archives.
Thanks,
Pavan
Thanks,
Pavan
On Sep 27 2023 10:21, Pavan Kondeti wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 10:21:32AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 26/08/2023 10:07, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> > > This script runs get_maintainer.py on a given patch file (or multiple
> > > patch files) and adds its output to the patch file in place with the
> > > appropriate email headers "To: " or "Cc: " as the case may be. These new
> > > headers are added after the "From: " line in the patch.
> > >
> > > Currently, for a single patch, maintainers and reviewers are added as
> > > "To: ", mailing lists and all other roles are added as "Cc: ".
> > >
> > > For a series of patches, however, a set-union scheme is employed in
> > > order to solve the all-too-common problem of ending up sending only
> > > subsets of a patch series to some lists, which results in important
> > > pieces of context such as the cover letter (or other patches in the
> > > series) being dropped from those lists. This scheme is as follows:
> > >
> > > - Create set-union of all maintainers and reviewers from all patches and
> > > use this to do the following per patch:
> > > - add only that specific patch's maintainers and reviewers as "To: "
> > > - add the other maintainers and reviewers from the other patches as "Cc: "
> > >
> > > - Create set-union of all mailing lists corresponding to all patches and
> > > add this to all patches as "Cc: "
> > >
> > > - Create set-union of all other roles corresponding to all patches and
> > > add this to all patches as "Cc: "
> > >
> > > Please note that patch files that don't have any "Maintainer"s or
> > > "Reviewers" explicitly listed in their `get_maintainer.pl` output will
> >
> > So before you will ignoring the reviewers, right? One more reason to not
> > get it right...
> >
> > > not have any "To: " entries added to them; developers are expected to
> > > manually make edits to the added entries in such cases to convert some
> > > "Cc: " entries to "To: " as desired.
> > >
> > > The script is quiet by default (only prints errors) and its verbosity
> > > can be adjusted via an optional parameter.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Guru Das Srinagesh <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > > MAINTAINERS | 5 ++
> > > scripts/add-maintainer.py | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 2 files changed, 169 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100755 scripts/add-maintainer.py
> > >
> >
> > I do not see the benefits of this script. For me - it's unnecessarily
> > more complicated instead of my simple bash function which makes
> > everything one command less than here.
> > One more thing to maintain.
>
> Thanks for your bash script. I slightly modified it to keep maintainers
> in To and rest in Cc.
>
> git send-email --dry-run --to="$(scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-multiline --separator=, --no-r --no-l --no-git --no-roles --no-rolestats --no-git-fallback *.patch)" --cc="$(scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-multiline --separator=, --no-m --no-git --no-roles --no-rolestats --no-git-fallback *.patch)" *.patch
FYI, b4 has "b4.send-auto-to-cmd" and "b4.send-auto-cc-cmd" [1] as well to
override its default behaviour. You can just set the above two b4 config
options as you like and it will do the right thing.
Guru Das.