Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update my maintainer entries to reorder email addresses

[Shuah Khan]

On 5/26/20 5:33 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 16:54 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > On 5/26/20 4:27 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 11:04 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > > > On 5/22/20 8:26 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2020-05-22 at 20:19 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > > > > > get_maintainer.pl picks only the first email address found in the file.
> > > > > > Reorder my email addresses so it finds my linuxfoundation.org email.
> > > > >
> > > > > OK.
> > > []
> > > > Sadly, people that don't run get_maintainer.pl, leave alone running it
> > > > with --noremove-duplicates option. So your suggestion doesn't really
> > > > help me.
> > > >
> > > > My preference is to get patches to both Inboxes if possible which isn't
> > > > possible unless -noremove-duplicate is default. Having this option as
> > > > default probably will annoy lot of people . So I am not asking for
> > > > that.
> > > >
> > > > That being said, I don't understand your comment. Are you recommending
> > > > using just one email in these entries?
> > >
> > > Yes.  And maybe set an autoforward rule in that email to
> > > forward the received email to your other address.
> > Sounds good.
>
> Another option would be to write your name
> slightly differently in the 2 entries.
>
> For instance, add "(LF)" to the linuxfoundation.org entry like:
>
> CPU POWER MONITORING SUBSYSTEM
> M:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxxx>
> M:	Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
> M:	Shuah Khan (LF) <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> L:	linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> S:	Maintained
> F:	tools/power/cpupower/
>
> and then the get_maintainer.pl script won't
> collapse the equally named but with different
> email addresses into a single entry:

I like this option.
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f tools/power/cpupower/
> Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxxx> (maintainer:CPU POWER MONITORING SUBSYSTEM)
> Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:CPU POWER MONITORING SUBSYSTEM)
> "Shuah Khan (LF)" <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:CPU POWER MONITORING SUBSYSTEM)
> linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:CPU POWER MONITORING SUBSYSTEM)
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)

Thanks for the idea. I will rework the patch and send it.

thanks,
-- Shuah