Florian Mickler
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scripts/get_maintainer.pl: default to not include unspecified tags ...
This changes the default of the option --git-all-signature-types to be
disabled by default.
The effect being, that only certain (currently Signed-Off-By:, Acked-by:
and Reviewed-By:) tags are used to get adresses of potential maintainers.
Motivated is this change by the desire to not 'spam' people unnecessary: A
Tested-By or a Reported-By is not ment as a hint that those people want
to/are able to review patches to the code in question.
In a quest to find resilient statistics for this i came up with this:
I produced a list of all the tag-signers not already covered with a
signed-off/acked/reviewed tag somewhere in the last year of git history.
Those were 650 addresses of "assumed non-developers".
And to check if those "assumed non-developers" are professional
testers/reporters worth cc'ing, i then counted their total appearences
in the git log:
469 were mentioned only once.
123 were mentioned twice.
38 three times
8 four times
5 six times
5 five times
1 eight times
1 fourteen times
I believe this supports my thesis, that the ''non-maintainer-tags'' are
not actively useful for patch-review. (except probably the guy mentioned
fourteen times...)
But of course one could also find arguments to poke holes in this
statistics, for example does this statistic not include code-locality: A
tested-by on a patch that touches some specific piece of code can be more
worth than a signed-off in another part of the tree.
But... let's play it safe and let's err on the "safe" side meaning to not
spam those people when in doubt. We already have the signed-off's and
Maintainers file. So this should be ok. And if need be, the maintainers
can always forward the patch.
[i probably could make a diploma thesis out of this changelog :)]
Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:05 -07:00
kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
2009-12-12 13:08:15 +01:00
dtc: Mark various internal functions static
2009-11-15 15:01:41 -08:00
genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
2009-12-12 13:08:16 +01:00
kconfig: util: Fix typo in comment
2010-03-15 15:17:01 +01:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Merge branch 'modules' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
2010-05-21 17:15:44 -07:00
Fix comment and Kconfig typos for 'require' and 'fragment'
2010-03-29 15:41:47 +02:00
[PATCH] rtmutex: Modify rtmutex-tester to test the setscheduler propagation
2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
selinux: fix warning in genheaders
2010-03-16 08:47:36 +11:00
tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer
2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
kconfig: simplification of scripts/extract-ikconfig
2009-10-07 11:44:18 -04:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
fix bloat-o-meter for ppc64
2007-12-17 19:28:17 -08:00
bootgraph: fix for use with dot symbols
2009-02-15 12:50:08 +01:00
checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place
2009-09-20 12:27:43 +02:00
kbuild,scripts: use non-builtin echo for '-e'
2009-10-11 23:21:25 +02:00
lockdep: Add novalidate class for dev->mutex conversion
2010-05-21 09:37:30 -07:00
sparc: Add checkstack support
2008-10-22 21:53:49 -07:00
asm-generic: add a generic unistd.h
2009-06-11 21:02:16 +02:00
kbuild: introduce utsrelease.h
2006-07-03 23:30:54 +02:00
scripts: Make cleanfile/cleanpatch warn about long lines
2007-07-16 21:15:50 +02:00
scripts: Make cleanfile/cleanpatch warn about long lines
2007-07-16 21:15:50 +02:00
kbuild: add generic --set-str option to scripts/config
2009-06-14 22:48:08 +02:00
Fix all -Wmissing-prototypes warnings in x86 defconfig
2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
scripts: improve the decodecode script
2008-12-03 22:36:39 +01:00
kconfig: add diffconfig utility
2008-07-25 22:12:41 +02:00
kbuild: fix perl usage in export_report.pl
2007-10-12 21:13:50 +02:00
kconfig: simplification of scripts/extract-ikconfig
2009-10-07 11:44:18 -04:00
Remove bashisms from scripts
2009-06-09 22:37:54 +02:00
stackprotector: fix multi-word cross-builds
2009-02-11 12:17:29 +01:00
stackprotector: fix multi-word cross-builds
2009-02-11 12:17:29 +01:00
kbuild: fix spurious initramfs rebuild
2009-04-11 08:18:12 +02:00
scripts/get_maintainer.pl: default to not include unspecified tags
2010-05-25 08:07:05 -07:00
tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
2010-02-09 11:13:56 +01:00
kbuild: fix option processing for -I in headerdep
2009-04-11 08:18:07 +02:00
kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
2009-12-12 13:08:14 +01:00
kbuild/headers_check: refine extern check
2009-06-09 22:37:56 +02:00
warn about use of uninstalled kernel headers
2009-10-11 23:21:25 +02:00
kallsyms: fix segfault in prefix_underscores_count()
2009-09-23 07:39:30 -07:00
kbuild: generate modules.builtin
2009-12-12 13:08:16 +01:00
scripts/kernel-doc: fix fatal error on function prototype
2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
scripts/Lindent: support gnu indent v2.2.10
2008-04-29 08:06:04 -07:00
sparc: Kill PROM console driver.
2009-09-15 17:04:38 -07:00
MIPS: Tracing: Add an endian argument to scripts/recordmcount.pl
2009-12-17 01:57:22 +00:00
kbuild: fix some minor typoes
2008-04-25 20:18:48 +02:00
firmware: silence __fw_modbuild and __fw_modinst 'Nothing to be done' messages
2008-08-02 07:52:29 +01:00
kbuild: fix "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check",
2009-06-09 22:37:56 +02:00
kbuild: fix some minor typoes
2008-04-25 20:18:48 +02:00
x86: Add optimized popcnt variants
2010-04-06 15:52:11 -07:00
kbuild: generate modules.builtin
2009-12-12 13:08:16 +01:00
Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"
2009-01-14 21:38:20 +01:00
tracing: Remove markers
2009-09-18 21:22:08 +02:00
kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
2007-10-15 22:25:06 +02:00
markup_oops.pl: fix $func_offset error with x86_64
2010-02-02 18:11:22 -08:00
kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
2009-12-12 13:08:15 +01:00
kbuild: teach mkmakfile to be silent
2008-12-03 21:32:02 +01:00
Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"
2009-01-14 21:38:20 +01:00
kbuild/mkuboot.sh: allow spaces in CROSS_COMPILE
2007-05-02 20:58:10 +02:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
linker script: throw away .discard section
2009-06-24 15:13:38 +09:00
x86: fixup the x86 namespace change in scripts/namespace.pl
2007-10-11 17:56:02 +02:00
bugfix for scripts/patch-kernel in 2.6 sublevel stepping
2008-08-06 22:11:33 +02:00
fbdev: work around old compiler bug
2009-06-30 18:55:59 -07:00
[PATCH] x86_64: Basic reorder infrastructure
2006-03-25 09:10:56 -08:00
Merge commit 'v2.6.33' into tracing/core
2010-02-26 09:18:32 +01:00
kbuild: fix delay in setlocalversion on readonly source
2009-06-14 22:26:00 +02:00
kbuild: fix mode of checkstack.pl and other files.
2006-04-11 13:37:07 +02:00
kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
2009-12-12 13:08:16 +01:00
unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
2009-12-12 13:08:16 +01:00
Remove bashisms from scripts
2009-06-09 22:37:54 +02:00
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