[RFC] scripts/get_maintainer: add emails based on keywords in the patch

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sat Oct 10 02:46:58 EST 2009


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Make get_maintainer.pl scan the modifying lines of a patch for a list of
> keywords and add an associated email if found. The first user is the
> devicetree-discuss mailing list which should always be cc'ed if a device tree
> property is inserted/removed (keyword 'of_get_property'). This patch is the
> result from commit 1965d30356c1c65660ba3330927671cfe81acdd5 entering mainline
> which seems to have been missed by all parties interested in the device tree
> (and at least had the documentation missing). As adding properties can happen
> anywhere and so there is no fitting fileglob, this keyword based approach is
> proposed.

Nice.  I cannot comment on the implementation, but I like the approach.

g.

> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
> ---
>  scripts/get_maintainer.pl |   24 ++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> index cdb44b6..e1150ea 100755
> --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> @@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ my $help = 0;
>
>  my $exit = 0;
>
> +my %keywords_to_mail = (
> +       'of_get_property' => 'L: devicetree-discuss at lists.ozlabs.org',
> +);
> +my $keywords_to_mail_match = join('|', keys %keywords_to_mail);
> +
>  my @penguin_chief = ();
>  push(@penguin_chief,"Linus Torvalds:torvalds\@linux-foundation.org");
>  #Andrew wants in on most everything - 2009/01/14
> @@ -188,6 +193,12 @@ if ($email_remove_duplicates) {
>
>  my @files = ();
>  my @range = ();
> +my @email_to = ();
> +my @list_to = ();
> +my @scm = ();
> +my @web = ();
> +my @subsystem = ();
> +my @status = ();
>
>  foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
>     ##if $file is a directory and it lacks a trailing slash, add one
> @@ -213,7 +224,11 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
>                if ($email_git_blame) {
>                    push(@range, "$lastfile:$1:$2");
>                }
> -           }
> +           # Check the lines which a patch modifies for keywords; add mail if found.
> +           } elsif (m/^[+-].*($keywords_to_mail_match)/o) {
> +               (my $keyword_mail = $keywords_to_mail{$1}) =~ s/^([LM]): //;
> +               push( @{ ($1 eq 'L') ? \@list_to : \@email_to }, $keyword_mail );
> +          }
>        }
>        close(PATCH);
>        if ($file_cnt == @files) {
> @@ -224,13 +239,6 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
>     }
>  }
>
> -my @email_to = ();
> -my @list_to = ();
> -my @scm = ();
> -my @web = ();
> -my @subsystem = ();
> -my @status = ();
> -
>  # Find responsible parties
>
>  foreach my $file (@files) {
> --
> 1.6.3.3
>
>



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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.


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