Re: [PATCH -next] get_maintainer: Improve "Author:" rolestats

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Nov 05 2013 - 01:16:31 EST


On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 14:04 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> On 11/05/2013 01:54 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 13:45 +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> >> > If really as what I guess above (some patches no Signed-of-by), is there
> >> > a tool to check and find this issue in time?
> > scripts/checkpatch.pl bleats a message on missing sign-offs.
>
> Yeah, the author/maintainer can use it for checking.
>
> But do we have additional tools to let the version tree integrator (e.g.
> sfr) notice about it?

git pre-commit hooks work.

btw: there's some development efforts going on
that might help here eventually.

Read this thread:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/26/158


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