On Thursday 27 December 2001 10:44 pm, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > Patch is against kernel 2.4.17, should apply to 2.5 as well.
> >
> > Good job! But please consider splitting the patch per driver and sending
> > it to the respective maintainers.
>
> Someone with far too much time on their hands would be my personal
> hero[*] if they were to write a script (in language of their choice) to
> parse a diff, extract filename, and do lookup in a flat text file
> to find a list of maintainers/interested parties.
Sounds like a good idea; I'll give it a shot over the next few days, unless
someone already has one :)
> Imagine a patch against devfs..
>
> $ cclist my.devfs.patch.diff
> Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
> Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
I'd add one level of abstraction: have each filename map to a "module" name.
In this case, each filename relating to devfs would map to module "devfs";
there would then be an entry mapping devfs <-> Richard.
(Perhaps a hierarchy - fs.devfs - with people like Al listed for "fs"?)
> This 'little black book of addresses' doesn't have to be anything
> wonderful, but its tedious work for someone to make the textfile
> mapping the various source files to email addresses.
It should be a little easier having a mapping to a module - in most cases,
there's a clear "module" to which each file belongs. Then just track who's
"subscribed to" that module...
James.
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