[Mesa-dev] [RFC PATCH] get_reviewer.pl: Delete

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Dylan Baker (2018-02-28 13:02:02)
> Quoting Rob Clark (2018-02-28 12:54:28)
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I find this script *really* annoying. Getting Cc'd on a random sample of
> > > a series is doing it wrong. Cc lists of 14 people is doing it wrong.
> > >
> > > Let's start the negotiation with "delete this script" and see if anyone
> > > can come up with a way of making this not so stupid.
> > 
> > tbh, if it were better about about not adding people to CC list just
> > because they had some commits around the effected code, I think that
> > would be better.  Better populating of REVIEWERS and higher weight to
> > REVIEWERS over git-blame would help, I think.  (It would be nice if it
> > wasn't a perl script, or at least that would make it easier for me to
> > fix that..)
> > 
> > As far as being CC'd on part of a patchset vs whole patchset, I'm not
> > really sure how to do that w/ git's cc-cmd.  I admit it would be nice
> > if it at least CC'd everyone on the cover letter for context, although
> > for a patchset that touched a lot of areas I think I'd prefer just to
> > be CC'd on cover letter plus individual patches.  I guess if there was
> > a way for letting get_reviewers script see the whole patchset upfront,
> > then inventing a way to get individual preferences about being cc'd on
> > whole patchset vs cover letters and individual patches would be an
> > option.
> > 
> > I do still like the general concept, to make it easier for the right
> > people to be CC'd on a patch, especially for drive-by submitters.
> > 
> > BR,
> > -R
> > 
> 
> What problem is this script trying to solve? Getting someone to look at patches?
> Figuring out who's code you're fixing? Having someone generally knowledgeable
> about a specific area of mesa look at your code?
> 
> I don't think this script really does a good job at any of those. The last can
> be solved better by just looking at the REVIEWERS file I think (I'm not opposed
> to a script that just looks at the REVIEWERS file). I don't think that the
> second problem is generally scriptable, and the first (if it's a problem) is a
> culture problem and can't be solved by technical means.
> 
> Dylan
> 

I meant to add, for wholesale deletion:
Reviewed-by: Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com>
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