Thread (32 messages) 32 messages, 6 authors, 2023-07-29

Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: get_maintainer: steer people away from using file paths

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2023-07-26 18:49:05
Also in: workflows

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 11:45, Limonciello, Mario
[off-list ref] wrote:
If the goal is to get people who are involved with a file, how about
some variation of:
No, that isn't the goal.

The goal is to get the maintainer responsible for that file, so that I
can bring them in.

Maybe it's a security issue that gets reported. Maybe it's an oops.
Maybe it's a regression, but not clear what caused it.

Maybe we could have a script to help do that, and call it
'get_maintainer' or something like that?

              Linus
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help