Hello,
I'd like to present a suggestion for automatic generation of
carbon copy fields in the E-Mails of posted patches.
Basically, instead of manually figuring out who to add to CC
when sending a patch to LKML by looking at MAINTAINERS, a
script can look at '.maintainers' files spread across the
source tree and automatically generate a proper list of CCs
for a patch.
To illustrate: If a patch affects a file under
drivers/net/e1000, the CC script will look at these files
drivers/net/e1000/.maintainers
drivers/net/.maintainers
drivers/.maintainers
.maintainers
... to gather up the mailing list addresses or an individual
maintainer inbox address.
A posssible format for this file could be a newline-separated
list of:
[filename wildcard]:e-mail
For example, drivers/scsi/.maintainers would contain:
libiscsi.*:[email protected]
scsi_*.c:[email protected]
etc...
Or, instead (or in addition) of having a '.maintainers' file
each directory we can modify source files by adding parsable
'/* MAINTAINER: name@domain */' comments.
Some extensions to the popular E-Mail clients might be needed
here. Also, a bot reading LKML would automatically send links
about posted patches to the other mailing lists whenever
someone forgets to add a CC.
Any comments?
--
Dan Aloni
XIV LTD, http://www.xivstorage.com
da-x (at) monatomic.org, dan (at) xiv.co.il
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