Re: New project: get_maintainer.pl web app

[Laura Abbott]

On 02/09/2018 01:21 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 13:07 -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > get_maintainers.pl has been the standard script for figuring out where to
> > send patches or bug reports. It has the disadvantage of requiring a kernel
> > tree to actually run though, which makes it harder for bug reports to
> > came in. I've started working on a small project to expose get_maintainers.pl
> > as a web app. This would let users enter information from a patch or crash
> > and call out to get_maintainers.pl. The current project just lets users
> > enter in a file path and it displays the output as is. There's lots of options
> > for what we could do with the output (omitting e-mails for those maintainers
> > who don't want to participate, printing out more helpful warnings etc.)
> >
> > The project is at https://pagure.io/get_maintainers and is not even close
> > to ready for primetime (passing data to get_maintainer.pl almost certainly
> > needs more thought). I'm mostly interested if anyone else would find this
> > useful or has general feedback.
>
> Is there a website already setup too?

Not yet. You have to run the app locally.