[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/4] introduce get_maintainer.pl

[Stefan Roese]

Hi Daniel,

On 04.09.2014 01:34, Simon Glass wrote:
>> This series imports get_maintainer.pl from kernel and reintroduce
>> the MAINTAINERS file in the according format. Currently one have to
>> manually grep all infos about board maintainers or custodians from
>> various sources like git log, wiki or boards.cfg. get_maintainer.pl
>> makes this task much easier. Also patman is already able to use it
>> for cc-cmd.
>>
>> The MAINTAINERS file contains all custodians and is hand-written based
>> on infos from wiki [1] and u-boot git forks [2]. Thus the source files
>> infos (F:) are not complete yet. Furthermore status (S:) and
>> maintainership (M:) for some custodian trees are probably wrong.
>> Any help in completing and fixing that is appreciated.
>>
>> The get_maintainers.pl script is modified to scan multiple
>> MAINTAINERS files in the board directory. This is required
>> with the switch to Kconfig which adds a MAINTAINERS file per board.
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>>   $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback -f board/sandbox/
>>     Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> (maintainer:SANDBOX BOARD)
>>     u-boot at lists.denx.de (open list)
>>
>>   $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback -f arch/sandbox/
>>     Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> (maintainer:SANDBOX)
>>     u-boot at lists.denx.de (open list)
>>
>>   $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit-fallback -f board/sandburst/metrobox/
>>     Travis Sawyer <travis.sawyer at sandburst.com> (orphan (since 2014-03):METROBOX BOARD)
>>     u-boot at lists.denx.de (open list)
>>
>> This series is also available at git://git.denx.de/u-boot-mips.git/maintainers_v3.
>
> Patman now picks this up which is great. But it does sometimes produce
> a long list of maintainers. I wonder if we could have an option to
> turn it off (perhaps -m)?

Yes, that would be good. I just recently got a very long Cc list in my 
quite bit patchset. This definitely was too much and I had to send those 
patches manually instead of using patman. We need an option to disable this.

Thanks,
Stefan