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On 01/10/2022 12:37, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> 
> I wasn't sure how people would necessarily feel about having 
> get_maintainer produce the string 'maintainer' for both Maintained and 
> Supported but, IMO it is more consistent to have it do so, since we 
> refer to maintainers all throughout the doucmentation and as you say 
> above Rafael is the person you *need* to mail there because he's the 
> maintainer.
> 
> Lets consider
> 
> - maintainer as a string for "S: Supported"
> - Documentation update to reflect Krzysztof's point on git-fallback

Just to clarify my point - one can use git-fallback. The expectation is
however that submitter CCs all specifically assigned addresses from
maintainers, this is:
 - all maintainers
 - all maintainers-supporters
 - all reviewers
 - all dedicated mailing lists
 - LKML if there is no dedicated mailing list.

The easiest to achieve it is to run with --no-git-fallback and CC entire
output. However it does not mean submitter must run with
--no-git-fallback. It is only for this generic rule - CC entire output
of get_maintainers.pl.

If you add such rule "CC entire output of get_maintainers.pl" and do not
mention no-git-fallback, some folks will think they need to CC all these
people who made one commit to your file...

Best regards,
Krzysztof