Re: [PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: append reason for cc to the name bydefault

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 12:22 +0200, Florian Mickler wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:04:26 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > One possible improvement that get_maintainers could
> > add is to [optionally] CC the author of the first
> > commit when there's no listed maintainer.
> I don't think the first commit has any special significance 
> in general. 

It does depend on the age of the first commit.

The author of the first commit is most frequently
the primary file author and also a current maintainer
or a still significantly interested party.

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