Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932652AbXHNS2g (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:28:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758335AbXHNS2O (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:28:14 -0400 Received: from DSL022.labridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:4782 "EHLO perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756981AbXHNS2M (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:28:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2many] - FInd the maintainer(s) for a patch - scripts/get_maintainer.pl From: Joe Perches To: Rene Herman Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Alan Cox , Arjan van de Ven , Trond Myklebust , Mariusz Kozlowski , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <46C1EE6F.2080807@gmail.com> References: <1186984174.10249.7.camel@localhost> <200708131933.10125.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <1187026955.2688.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1187037445.6628.98.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1187054366.2757.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <46C10AA8.3090505@gmail.com> <20070814102033.604c8695@the-village.bc.nu> <46C1CFFE.4000001@gmail.com> <1187110824.32555.76.camel@localhost> <46C1EE6F.2080807@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:28:02 -0700 Message-Id: <1187116082.32555.122.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2-2.1mdv2007.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 882 Lines: 28 On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:03 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > "git info --maintainer drivers/ide/ide-cd.c" or some such would say "Alan > Cox ". Perhaps maintainer(s), approver(s), listener(s)? I think something like this should be a git-goal. What do the git-wranglers think? Until a time in the future when a system like that exists, I suggest keeping MAINTAINERS up-to-date with F: pattern It'll be useful as git-set-maintainer seeds at least. > sticking headers on every source file isn't nice anyway -- > it's meta-information and the SCM can maintain it. It's like looking at $CVS$ keywords. Unsightly. cheers, Joe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/