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Subject: Re: New project: get_maintainer.pl web app
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
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Date:   Fri, 09 Feb 2018 13:21:32 -0800
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On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 13:07 -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> get_maintainers.pl has been the standard script for figuring out where to
> send patches or bug reports. It has the disadvantage of requiring a kernel
> tree to actually run though, which makes it harder for bug reports to
> came in. I've started working on a small project to expose get_maintainers.pl
> as a web app. This would let users enter information from a patch or crash
> and call out to get_maintainers.pl. The current project just lets users
> enter in a file path and it displays the output as is. There's lots of options
> for what we could do with the output (omitting e-mails for those maintainers
> who don't want to participate, printing out more helpful warnings etc.)
> 
> The project is at https://pagure.io/get_maintainers and is not even close
> to ready for primetime (passing data to get_maintainer.pl almost certainly
> needs more thought). I'm mostly interested if anyone else would find this
> useful or has general feedback.

Is there a website already setup too?