Re: [bug] get_maintainer.pl incomplete output

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 12:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:51:18 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I haven't looked closely at scripts/get_maintainer.pl, but I recently 
> > wrote a patch touching mm/vmpressure.c and it doesn't list the file's 
> > author, Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx>.
> > 
> > Even when I do scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c, his entry is 
> > missing and git blame attributs >90% of the lines to his authorship.
> > 
> > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f mm/vmpressure.c 
> > Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:6/7=86%)
> > Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> (commit_signer:5/7=71%)
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:4/7=57%)
> > Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:3/7=43%)
> > "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
> > linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx (open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT)
> > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)
> 
> get_maintainer should, by default, answer the question "who should I
> email about this file".  It clearly isn't doing this, and that's a
> pretty big fail.

I disagree.

It's decidedly good at doing precisely that when a
MAINTAINERS entry exists.

When no one is a listed maintainer, the results
can certainly be tweaked to be better.

> I've learned not to trust it, so when I use it I always have to check
> its homework with "git log | grep Author" :(
> 
> Joe, pretty please?

It's really a question of "how long ago is too long ago" as
older commits way too often also show old/invalid email
addresses.

I also don't want to wait over 30 seconds or so to find out
who is listed as a git signer/author by default.

Adding the commit listed "Author:" as a signer doesn't seem
too hard though.  I'll play with that.

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