Re: get_maintainer.pl and MAINTAINERS file

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 21:53 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Cc: joe
> 
> On 05/19/2016, 02:57 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > 
> > (Changed the subject from "Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] auxdisplay: Introduce ht16k33 driver")
> > 
> > Robin van der Gracht <robin@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > And 4th, what is with the insane number of people on cc:?  Use
> > > > get_maintainer.pl correctly please, and don't just hit everyone you
> > > > can possibly think of with a cc: for no good reason.
> > > I did use the get_maintainer script. I solely passed the patch set as
> > > command line argument.
> > I think get_maintainer script should ignore MAINTAINERS file altogether.

Maybe, maybe not.
The list of MAINTAINERS names returned by get_maintainer.pl is:

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:39/504=8%)
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:38/504=8%)
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:36/504=7%)
Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:28/504=6%)
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (added_lines:109/2073=5%,removed_lines:108/779=14%)
Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (removed_lines:48/779=6%)
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxxx> (removed_lines:46/779=6%)

> > After I did drivers/net/wireless reorganisation, and had to make
> > numerous changes to MAINTAINERS in the process, I have been CCed to all
> > sorts of patchsets to which I have nothing to do with (this one
> > included). I suspect get_maintainer.pl is to blame here.

Doubtful but possible.
I have no idea how many files were modified by whatever
patch was checked, but more files, more maintainers.

Unmaintained files have even more "not quite maintainers",
but get_maintainer.pl lists the names of people that recently
modified those specific files.

> Last time I even tried to fix this up, but failed due to time
> limitations as the code is a bit complex.
> 
> Joe, you seem to be the one who touched the script many times recently.
> May we ask you to fix this up?

I'm not touching stuff right now.  Maybe next month.