[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists)

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Mon Jul 13 10:00:12 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 01:40:05PM -0700, josh at joshtriplett.org wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 07:24:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > The false positives are a bit of an issue since it discourages people
> > doing smaller cleanups over wide areas, you can end up getting CCed on
> > lots of things you touched which can be a bit offputting.

> --git-fallback seems to work pretty well.  It nicely embodies the
> approach of "if it doesn't have a maintainer, talk to the last poor
> sucker who touched it".

That seems to have the same problems as just plain old git, and given
the way it uses wildcards it will use git more often than it should for
common patterns like companies supporting all their devices.  It'll just
trigger a bit less often.
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