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To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
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From:   Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] get_maintainer: Describe supporters and
 maintainers as required email recipients
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On 29.09.22 05:29, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 01:24:59AM +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
>> The output of get_maintainer.pl doesn't make clear that a supporter is a
>> type of maintainer who should be mailed when generating a patch.
>>
>> In various places in the documentation we make reference to the necessity
>> to remember to include the appropriate maintainers when sending your patch
>> but, we confusingly don't call out supporters as maintainers in our
>> automation utility.
>>
>> Fix that up now by having get_maintainers.pl print 'maintainer[volunteer]'
>> or 'maintainer[supporter]'.
> 
> I really don't think this is correct.  Or at least, I don't think it's
> consistent with how we've historically understood the S: term in the
> MAINTAINERS file. [...]

Hmm, yeah, you are right, I didn't think this trough when suggesting
"maintainer[volunteer]". @Bryan: sorry for leading your in the wrong
direction.

Ciao, Thorsten