Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add scripts/get_maintainer.pl

[Matthew Daley <mattjd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is a minor change to QEMU's scripts/get_maintainer.pl to work in a XEN 
> souce tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <dslutz@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I've used a similarly-modified get_maintainers script (also from QEMU)
lately and have found it useful (ie. with treewide Coverity fixes) and
so would be happy to see this go in. A few suggestions though:

This script was discussed in the recent past (
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-03/msg00984.html )
and IIUC the consensus was that, if it were to go in, the Git fallback
searches would be disabled ($email_git_fallback = 0, AFAIK). IMO It's
not necessary for a (relative to Linux) small project like Xen, with
adequate MAINTAINERS coverage, to need this fallback.

Also, speaking of adequate MAINTAINERS coverage, the last entry which
attempts to have Keir as a fallback for "everything else" actually
mean Keir is CC'd on everything using the script. This is because it
uses all matching regexes and not just the most specific. Perhaps this
entry needs to be commented out (leaving it their for manual
inspection), or removed entirely?

- Matthew

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