Dan Aloni wrote:
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?
an easier way to implement this is to add an extra field in the MAINTAINERS
file, something like below. All the contact info would stay the same, closely
where applicable and it would allow you to also specify specific files as well.
Auke
(horribly whitespace-mutilated copy+paste from thunderbird below)
---
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 4c3277c..e55be49 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ L: Mailing list that is relevant to this area
W: Web-page with status/info
T: SCM tree type and location. Type is one of: git, hg, quilt.
S: Status, one of the following:
+F: Directory tree or Files belonging to this subsystem
Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this.
Maintained: Someone actually looks after it.
@@ -1880,6 +1881,7 @@ M: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
W: http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/
S: Supported
+F: drivers/net/e100.c
INTEL PRO/1000 GIGABIT ETHERNET SUPPORT
P: Jeb Cramer
@@ -1895,6 +1897,7 @@ M: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
W: http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/
S: Supported
+F: drivers/net/e1000/
INTEL PRO/10GbE SUPPORT
P: Jeff Kirsher
@@ -1910,6 +1913,7 @@ M: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
W: http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/
S: Supported
+F: drivers/net/ixgb/
INTEL PRO/WIRELESS 2100 NETWORK CONNECTION SUPPORT
P: Yi Zhu
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