[Mesa-dev] [RFC] add MAINTAINERS and get_maintainer.pl script

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> Speaking of maintainers... I have a patch somewhere that adds you as
> maintainer for $linux/drivers/drm/gpu/msm/.
> Guess I should send it already ;-)
>
> On 19 April 2016 at 22:11, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Rob Clark <robclark at freedesktop.org>
>>
>> Copied from linux kernel, with minimal changes to script (just to
>> recognize mesa src tree rather than linux kernel src tree), and slimmed
>> down MAINTAINER file syntax to recognize that we don't really have
>> subsystem "maintainers" in the same sense as the linux kernel (ie. no
>> different mailing lists and git trees per subsystem).
>>
> Crazy idea: Worth mentioning the commit this based upon and tracking
> all the changes in git ? This way one can leech from the kernel and
> contribute back as applicable ;-)
>
>> The main point is to automate slapping on the correct CC's for patches
>> via git's --cc-cmd feature, more than anything else.
>>
>> I didn't attempt to fully populate the MAINTAINERS file, by a long shot.
>> The point was to just be able to test it, and get feedback if people
>> like the idea.
>>
> Fwiw the idea sounds great imho. There is a small warning though - the
> script is under the GPLv2 licence. Would that interfere with
> BSD/Solaris/companies that ship mesa based binaries ? If it's a matter
> of not shipping the script [in the tarball] that's great. Although
> it's worth checking.

There's no point in shipping it in the tarball anyway, since it's for
use with git send-email.


Let's let people add themselves to the file if they want. No point in
trying to populate it up front.