Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: Default to --no-git-fallback

[Peter Maydell]

On 20 October 2014 15:15, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 20 October 2014 10:19, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Contributors rely on this script to find maintainers to copy.  The
>> > script falls back to git when no exact MAINTAINERS pattern matches.
>> > When that happens, recent contributors get copied, which tends not be
>> > particularly useful.  Some contributors find it even annoying.
>> >
>> > Flip the default to "don't fall back to git".  Use --git-fallback to
>> > ask it to fall back to git.

>> Good idea.

> What do you want to happen in this case?

It should mail the people who are actually maintainers,
not anybody who happened to touch the code in the last
year.

> I'm yet to see contributors who are annoyed but we
> can always blacklist specific people.

At the moment I just don't use get_maintainers.pl at
all because I tried it a few times and it just cc'd
a bunch of irrelevant people...

I suspect anybody using it at the moment is either
using the --no-git-fallback flag or trimming the
cc list a lot.

thanks
-- PMM