On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 11:50:01AM +0200, Casey Connolly wrote: > get_maintainer in U-Boot is configured to include contributors and patch > reviewers from the git history in the CC list, going back 1 year if they > have contributed more than 5% of the patches. > > This is well suited to some core U-Boot code that has a long history and > doesn't get much love from any dedicated maintainer but for newer code > and board code in general as well as defconfigs it can be frustrating > for some contributors who do not wish to be CC'd on patches as well as a > general issue when dead emails are included. > > While it would be desirable to just remove the --git flag and encourage > those interested to configure lei or just add themselves to MAINTAINERS > it perhaps makes more sense to phase it out gradually. > > As a first step, reduce the time period that will be checked in the git > history from 1 year to 6 months, this still offers plenty of leeway for > contributions to the last 1/2 U-Boot releases. In addition, bump up the > required percentage of contributions from 5% to 15% and reduce the limit > on the number of "git maintainers" (i.e. unique S-o-b/A-b/R-b tags) from > 5 to 2. > > These changes should reduce the size of CC lists while still including > recent active contributors. > > Signed-off-by: Casey Connolly <[email protected]> > --- > Cc: Marek Vasut <[email protected]> > --- > .get_maintainer.conf | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/.get_maintainer.conf b/.get_maintainer.conf > index f916cfbe480e..302fcee9699f 100644 > --- a/.get_maintainer.conf > +++ b/.get_maintainer.conf > @@ -1 +1,6 @@ > ---find-maintainer-files --git --maintainer-path=. > +--find-maintainer-files > +--git > +--git-min-percent 15 > +--git-since 6-months-ago > +--git-max-maintainers 2 > +--maintainer-path=.
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]> -- Tom
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