Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!

[Andreas Färber]

Am 12.03.2012 19:03, schrieb Lluís Vilanova:
> Stefano Stabellini writes:
> [...]
>> Patches are being posted to the list that don't get any reviews at all.
>> Other patches get reviewed the first time, then once they are reposted
>> they don't get any other reviews or acked-by or reviewed-by.
> 
> What are the different tags available and what is their semantic? Maybe this
> should be written down somewhere (HACKING?).
> 
> I'll contribute a starting list of tags
> (http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches), please
> check these are the desired semantics for this project.
> 
> * Cc: Full Name <email>
> 
>   In addition to sending the patches to the mailing list, they must be Cc'ed 
> to,
>   at least, the maintainers for the affected files. You can look up the
>   maintainers for each file in the MAINTAINERS file.
> 
>   The command "git send-email" will automatically look for such a tag in order
>   to send a CC of the mail to the given person.
> 
>   Document maintainer discovery with 'scripts/get_maintainer.pl'?

Add this to your .git/config:

[sendemail]
        cccmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback

The poorly documented argument avoids fallback to git-blame.

Andreas

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