On 20 October 2014 15:15, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 20 October 2014 10:19, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> 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
