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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/22/2014 09:12 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >     $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f util/cutils.c
> >     Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> (commit_signer:1/2=50%)
> >     Eric Blake <address@hidden> (commit_signer:1/2=50%)
> >     Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> (commit_signer:1/2=50%)
> >     Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> (commit_signer:1/2=50%)
> >     Amit Shah <address@hidden> (commit_signer:1/2=50%)
> > 
> > A sufficiently seasoned contributor will spot the "commit_signer" tags,
> > and the output as a hint to find people to copy.  In this particular
> > case, he'll recognize the hint is useless.  Maybe he'll try something
> > like --git-since 2010 or --git-blame then.  I'd just peruse git-log.
> > 
> > A less seasoned contributor will blindly copy all five.
> 
> I give up. What's the correct answer?
> I frankly don't know whom should one copy on this file.
> Fabrice?

Most likely, no one.  Just qemu-devel and/or qemu-trivial.

Paolo