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

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Patch submission done well IMO would be something like github PRs, with
> a bot that auto-tags people based on a MAINTAINERS-style opt-in for
> reviewing certain paths within the tree.
>
> I don't think get_reviewers.pl improves the git-send-email situation
> compared to maintainers needing to manage email filters.  It's not
> consistent, so you need to indoctrinate new submitters (more barriers to
> entry!) and maintainers need to maintain their mail filters anyway.
>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>

I'd be happy to give gitlab a try, and I see that we have an instance
on FDO: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/

Maybe Daniel can tell us what the status is. I think I heard he was
working on it.